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Re: menuitemradio and menuitemcheckbox with iOS VoiceOver

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From: James Nurthen
Date: Apr 13, 2015 10:05PM

Jesse,
I've seen this bug. I'm not sure if we have logged it or not. It won't do
any harm to log a duplicate if we haven't.
Regards,
James

On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Jesse Hausler < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> I'm hoping someone can confirm before I go through that trouble.
>
> a blank page with <a href="foo.html" role="menuitemradio"> is all the code
> you need. You can put it in a proper menu implementation as well. Still
> broken.
>
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Bryan Garaventa <
> <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> > That sounds like a bug to me, it should convey the correct role and state
> > using VoiceOver.
> >
> > Can you please document this with a working code sample and steps to
> > reproduce and send this to <EMAIL REMOVED> ?
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
> > Behalf Of Jesse Hausler
> > Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 4:31 PM
> > To: WebAIM Discussion List
> > Subject: [WebAIM] menuitemradio and menuitemcheckbox with iOS VoiceOver
> >
> > Has anyone else notices that you can't focus on items in a menu with
> role> > menuitemradio or menuitemcheckbox? Is this a new "feature" of iOS8? We've
> > found this issue in iOS 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3.
> >
> > menu items with role="menuitem" work just fine.
> >
> > Jesse
> > > > > > at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
> > > >
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > >