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From: Srinivasu Chakravarthula
Date: Aug 3, 2017 1:59AM

I would mark it as a violation. Unless announcing role of an element, user
would not know it it's a button that does some action or link or something
else...

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On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 12:19 PM, surbhi Mudgal < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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?
>
>
> Regards,
> Surbhi Mudgal.
> > > > >