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Re: [EXTERNAL] Accessibility: ARIA trees obviously not accessible with NVDa/JAWS screenreader and Firefox/Chrome on Windows

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jan 27, 2021 11:04AM

> has all three top level tree items in the DOM. The child elements have display:none. So I expected to be able to navigate to "Vegetables" and "Grains". They're in the DOM and accessibility tree.

It's pretty standard for Windows screen readers that they only show the accessible name and role of the tree and the selected item to users in browse mode and do not show other top level items even if they are visible. This is very similar to how a standard select with multiple visible items work in HTML with a Windows screen reader - you don't have access to the other visible items in the list - only the list itself and the selected item.

Jonathan