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Re: Missing control type of components in mobile

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Aug 3, 2017 3:25AM

On 03/08/2017 07:49, surbhi Mudgal wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Hope all doing good.
>
> In mobile while testing an application on android with talkback observe
> that control type of the elements are not announced on focusing but
> talkback gives the instruction "double tap to activate".
>
> It's a violation under WCAG4.1.2 if the role is not exposed to screen
> readers but what could be the impact if control type is missing announcing
> the instructions like "double tap to activate"? Hearing to instruction user
> for sure activates items and I would like to know which users have more
> impact due to this behavior?

Being strict here, if this is a shortcoming in Talkback, rather than
anything incorrect/missing in markup, then I'd say it's not a violation
of 4.1.2, and the fault lies with Talkback.

P
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