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From: Steve Green
Date: Jan 2, 2019 9:53PM

I have just tried it with Chrome on a few websites and whilst it is useful, you can't always take the results at face value. For instance, one website contained a div element that contained two others that had aria-label attributes. No matter where I hovered the mouse, the Visual ARIA tooltip showed the accessible name as being the concatenation of the two aria-label attributes. Maybe this is the expected behaviour, but I expected to be able to see the accessible names for each div separately.

Another issue is that the tooltip for the accessible name is often very narrow so the accessible name wraps onto multiple lines and is mostly hidden behind the tooltip for the accessible description. It seems that the tooltip is constrained to the width of the container that the target element is in.

I have also just seen the accessible name wrap without going onto a new line, so it overwrites itself and is almost entirely unreadable. It looks like the text in the tooltips is using some of the styles from the target page, which does not seem to be a good idea.

Also, there are no tooltips when I hover over a native combobox, even if it has an accessible name. Is this expected?

All these issues and more can be seen if you use Visual ARIA on https://www.jackwills.com/sale-and-offers/ladies/sale-hoodies/. The accessibility of the entire website is terrible so it's a good one to use for evaluating accessibility testing tools.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd