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Re: aria-haspopup="dialog"

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: May 4, 2018 9:43AM

I went ahead and opened a new issue for NVDA,
https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/8235
(who needs lunch, it's a Friday).
Feel free to comment or watch the issue.

Cheers
-B


On 5/4/18, Steve Faulkner < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>
>> I filed a Jaws bug for this in December
>>
> https://github.com/FreedomScientific/VFO-standards-support/issues/33
>
>
> Thanks for the reminder Birkir, have gone in to the JAWS internal bug
> tracker and given it a bump.
>
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>
> Regards
>
> SteveF
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>
> On 4 May 2018 at 15:30, Birkir R. Gunnarsson < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
>> I filed a Jaws bug for this in December
>> https://github.com/FreedomScientific/VFO-standards-support/issues/33
>> (yes, my GitHub username is wildebrew, long story).
>> This issue has a fairly detailed description of the problem and points
>> to a Codepen I created to demonstrate the problem.
>> I could go and file it with NVDA, or anybody who is filing this with
>> NVDA is free to point to this issue.
>> If you do open an NVDA issue about this, please reply to this thread.
>> If nobody has by Sunday I will try to find the time to open it and
>> will also reply to this thread.
>> Thanks
>> -Birkir
>>
>>
>>
>> On 5/4/18, glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> > Actually, unknown values are supposed to be treated as "false",
>> > according
>> > to https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/#aria-haspopup
>> >
>> > User agents *MUST* treat any value of aria-haspopup that is not included
>> in
>> >> the list of allowed values...as if the value false had been provided.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Both firefox and chrome, with the latest NVDA, say 'submenu' instead of
>> > 'dialog'. Internet Explorer doesn't say anything other than "link".
>> JAWS
>> > works fine, as you mentioned.
>> >
>> > I looked at the NVDA bug list and I don't see anything regarding
>> > aria-haspopup values. You may want to file a bug for them.
>> >
>> > https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q>> is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+aria-haspopup
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 4:42 AM, Mallory < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I thought the default for an unknown (or simply "true") value of
>> >> aria-haspopup was "menu" so maybe [your version of] NVDA doesn't
>> recognise
>> >> that value?
>> >>
>> >> cheers,
>> >> _mallory
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, May 4, 2018, at 11:37 AM, Kakarla Meharoon wrote:
>> >> > Hi
>> >> >
>> >> > I tried to use aria 1.1 updates, aria-haspopup= "dialog" for the link
>> >> which
>> >> > will open as a popup, but in JAWS it is announced as a dialog but
>> >> > NVDA
>> >> > it
>> >> > is reading as a submenu.
>> >> >
>> >> > Did anyone try this one?
>> >> >
>> >> > Is it necessary to give advance warning to the link/button which
>> >> > opens
>> >> as a
>> >> > dialog?
>> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>
>> > >> > >> > >> > >> >
>>
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>> >> >> >> >>
> > > > >


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