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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Dec 4, 2016 3:16PM

> Using NVDA and FF we always encounter this. I don't think you can do something to fix it. We earlier used to treat this as empty tab stop but later realized that is a browser bug than a developer problem.

My solution to NVDA not announcing anything on the iframe is to place a container around the iframe with a region role and provide an accessible name on the surrounding region. When tabbing NVDA will announce the name of the region because it announces the name of a region change on tab.

Jonathan

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Maxability Accessibility for all
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2016 11:39 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Tab focus going to the beginning of Iframe:

Hi Ram,

Using NVDA and FF we always encounter this. I don't think you can do something to fix it. We earlier used to treat this as empty tab stop but later realized that is a browser bug than a developer problem.
Try navigating the page with tab in forms mode (insert space bar) , you will not see the empty tab stop at the beginning of the frame.
Finally in my thought you need to flag it as user agent defect.
HTH

Rakesh


On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Léonie Watson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> On 01/12/2016 15:32, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
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>> Don't have the setup to try it right now, but from memory the "iframe
>> itself gets focus first" is default behavior when using NVDA?
>>
>
> You're right. I put together a scratch test case, and NVDA does seem
> to treat the <ifram> itself as a focusable object.
>
> Léonie.
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