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Re: Scripting Question: Content Not Appearing In Screen Reader View Of Page, But Can Tab To It

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From: Mallory
Date: May 3, 2020 7:43AM

Pat,
Not in this case (nothing is computed as hidden). If I can make a small reproduceable test case, I may have a chromium bug to file.

So additional advice for looking at hidden stuff, whether in devtools or via a screen reader: test multiple engines. When they don't agree with each other, it makes it easier to decide if something's a bug (or, sometimes, not a bug but still an issue of browser engines not agreeing on the same behaviour).

cheers,
_mallory

On Thu, Apr 30, 2020, at 2:32 PM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
...
> In Chrome's Accessibility panel, beyond the a11y tree showing "Ignored",
> you should also be able to see in the "Computed properties" when an
> ancestor was set to hidden, and get a clickable reference to that ancestor
>
> (along lines of Accessibility node not exposed / aria-hidden is true on
> ancestor: div#info.style-scope.blah ...)
>
> P
>
> --
> Patrick H. Lauke