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Status: Fixed
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Closed: Apr 2018
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OS: Windows , Mac
Pri: 2
Type: Bug
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Web notifications are not read

Reported by st...@sawczyn.com, Dec 20 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.108 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Go to FaceBook, Slack, or any other site that can send a browser notification to Chrome.
2. Perform any action that would trigger a notification.
3.

What is the expected behavior?
Screen readers such as NVDA should read the notification when displayed by Chrome.  The user should have the ability to interact with the notification if it contains interactive elements.

What went wrong?
NVDA reads nothing meaning that the user may not be aware that a notification is being displayed.  In addition, there seems to be no way for the user to interact with interactive elements of the notification if present.

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version: 63.0.3239.108  Channel: stable
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version: 

Two possible solutions here might be to use the Windows native notification system, or to display notifications using the Windows native toast views as these should be announced by screen readers by default.  Alternatively, ARIA live regions or alerts could be used to cause notifications to be announced.
 
Labels: Needs-Triage-M63
Components: -UI UI>Accessibility
Labels: Triaged-ET M-65 OS-Mac
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
Able to reproduce this issue on Mac 10.12.6 and Win-10 using chrome reported version #63.0.3239.108 and latest canary #65.0.3304.0.
This is a non-regression issue as it is observed from M50 old builds. 

Hence, marking it as untriaged to get more inputs from dev team.

Thanks...!!
Labels: win-a11y
Labels: Notifications
Status: Available (was: Untriaged)
Labels: dialogs
Owner: aleventhal@chromium.org

Comment 6 by nek...@chromium.org, Apr 26 2018

Summary: Web notifications are not accessible via keyboard (was: Accessibility: Browser notifications are not read by NVDA and other screen readers)
Example site at https://web-push-book.gauntface.com/demos/notification-examples/
Status: Fixed (was: Available)
Summary: Web notifications are not read (was: Web notifications are not accessible via keyboard)
This was fixed in CL 968672.

Opening separate issues for follow-ups.

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