Can anyone in accessibility can triage this?

+ChromeVox

Hello,

I see that you have indicated that you are using ChromeVox on Windows. Please give us more details on the environment you are using.   

We recommend using a native screen reader with Chrome such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, or TalkBack. We support ChromeVox in the Chrome OS operating system on Chromebooks. 

I'll be happy to look into this further once I get this information. Also, if you can, please direct me to an example URL that demonstrates the table you described above to ensure that I am testing in the same context as you. 

Thanks,

Laura 

Windows 10 fully updated using the most recent version of Chrome and ChromeVox.

I've worked a bit more with this.

I see list counts announced correctly when HTML mark up matches the roles (ul role="list" with li children).

However, for a div container of role="list" with multiple a tags role="listitem" the count is incorrectly announced as zero. 

I think roles describe the page as experienced by sighted user.  So, a drop down list of links with correct HTML structure would be announced as a list where role="list" with total items equal to the count of descendants with role="listitem". 

Clearly, translating complex markup into ARIA roles isn't going to match HTML structure.

Is this the designed behavior?

Hi, I think there is some confusion in how roles work. Each html tag should only have one role. If you add the role of listitem to an <a> tag, then screen reading software will no longer identify that tag as a link. Just as in a standard list of links you need both the <li> and <a>, you need two tags to make a list of links accessible.
Example:
<div role="list">
  <div role="listitem"><a href="dog.html">dog</a></div>
  <div role="listitem"><a href="cat.html">cat</a></div>
</div>

Since I cannot reproduce this issue with NVDA or JAWS on Windows, I am closing this issue. Feel free to reopen it if you are able to reproduce with NVDA or JAWS.