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Re: Calendar widget Date selected status did not announced byJAWS/NVDA

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From: Beranek, Nicholas
Date: Sep 7, 2017 7:03AM

Hi Ajeesh,

If they are setting aria-selected to "true" for the selected grid cell and "false" to all the others, then that is sufficient to reveal the stat programmatically. I've noticed the same behavior you mention and think we should let the screen reader vendors know. I'd imagine the desired behavior is to announce "selected" when the state of the component you're on changes.

Nick Beranek
Capital One

> On Sep 7, 2017, at 3:03 AM, Ajeesh Thomas < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Hi All ,
> We come across a Calendar widget (with Grid Role) -
> here, User can select the Dates by using Keyboard - after Selection,
> instead closing the Widget -selected Date will be visually Highlighted
> with in the Calendar -
> However Screen reader is not announcing the Date selection status.
> Please see the behavior below.
> I. JAWS18 with IE 11:
> - Pressing Enter/Space Bar (Date visually highlighted)
> JAWS did not announced anything.
> - Using Arrow keys (over the Date visually highlighted)
> JAWS did not announced anything.
>
> II. VDA 2017.3 with Firefox 50:
> - Pressing Enter/Space Bar (Date visually highlighted) NVDA 2017.3 did
> not announced anything.
> - Using Arrow keys (over the Date visually highlighted) NVDA 2017.3
> announced as Highlighted date as - 'Selected.
> For example: On Arrow key navigation NVDA announced as 8 Sept 2017 Selected
> 1. Is there any Screen reader /Browser limitation to update the
> Date status with respect to ARIA
> 2. To make the Date status accessible with in Calendar widget (with
> Grid Role) what would be the solution
> Request your support in this regards.
>
>
>
>
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>
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