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Re: Text not read by screen reader on first focus.
From: Mark Magennis
Date: Jan 18, 2023 1:17AM
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Hi Kevin,
Have you ruled out the possibility that it may be a screen reader bug?
In some cases name, role, and value may all be exposed correctly but a screen reader may not read them due to a bug in the screen reader, not a fault of the coding. This would not be a WCAG failure (arguably, notwithstanding the Accessibility Supported issue).
What's in your dropdown? If it's a menu and the first item is a menuitemcheckbox or menuitemradio and if you are using NVDA, then you will get the behaviour you describe due to an NVDA bug.
Mark
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Excellent - value is the bit I was struggling to find.
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Sounds like 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value (
https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#name-role-value)
If the label of the dropdown is announced, then it passes the "Name" part.
If the element is read as a "dropdown" or "combobox" (or similar), then it passes the "Role" part.
It's the last part, the "Value" of the dropdown that doesn't sound like it's being announced until you change the value. That would fail.
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