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Re: Potential Firefox bug with W3C ARIA pattern?

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jul 27, 2022 6:49PM

I took a quick ook with the latest version of Jaws.
On Chrome the value of the combobox is always communicated (in close
or open state)
In Firefox the aria-activedescendant values are announced just fine
(while the comcobox is open and you arrow between the fruits), but the
value of the combobox is only announced sometimes when closed (i.e.
the selected value).
I have to dig deeper into the code to see if I can figure it out, but
this seems to be some sort of a potential Firefox/NVDA bug.


On 7/27/22, Graham Armfield < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've been having a look at the W3C's ARIA APG patterns and using them to
> demo screen readers to developers. I've come across a situation in NVDA on
> Firefox on one of the patterns where I'm not hearing expected
> announcements. I'm not certain but I think it's a bug in Firefox, and I
> wondered if anyone else had come across this.
>
> It's on the Select-Only Combobox pattern at
> https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/example-index/combobox/combobox-select-only.html
> which effectively presents equivalent functionality to the HTML select
> element.
>
> When running NVDA over the working example in the page everything seems to
> work OK, except that NVDA does not announce the current value of the
> combobox - whether it's set to the initial default value or after selecting
> one of the items to change the value to something else.
>
> I've tried NVDA on the same page in Chrome and the current value is
> announced. JAWS also announces the value in Chrome, but not in Firefox so
> I'm guessing this is an issue in Firefox.
>
> The value is presented as text inside a div with a role=combobox, and I'm
> guessing that maybe the presence of aria-labelledby on the div might be
> causing the suppression of the text.
>
> Anyone got any thoughts on this?
>
> Regards
> Graham Armfield
>
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