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Re: when is a list not a list?

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Feb 26, 2022 9:23AM

On 26/02/2022 15:10, glen walker wrote:
> I guess I was in a philosophical mood and was questioning why something
> that was coded according to normative spec and that appears to create a
> correct AOM doesn't work. Not sure why I picked on this particular case.
> There are lots of examples of correct (normative) code that are not
> announced properly by AT.

Because of the usual bane of AT heuristics (i.e. if the AT determined
that no, despite the aria-label there that list item has no content at
all, and as a result the entire list is empty as far as the AT is
concerned, there's no point now announcing "list with zero items" but
just silently skipping it altogether)

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