Open Bug 1184990 Opened 9 years ago Updated 2 years ago

When navigating to a radio button group using TalkBack the Role of Group is not announced.

Categories

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Disability Access APIs
Version:
39 Branch
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: roy.nickelson, Unassigned)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0
Build ID: 20150630154324

Steps to reproduce:

navigate to 
https://labs.ssbbartgroup.com/index.php/ARIA_Radio_and_Radiogroup
Navigate to the Platform Radio button group


Actual results:

The role of Groupe was not announced.


Expected results:

Talkback will announce the group Role.
Component: Untriaged → Disability Access APIs
Product: Firefox → Core
Note that many screen readers don't announce the role of "group", since many things are groups, but rather only announce the label of the group to give context to the radio buttons. If memory serves me right, we decided to not speak the word "group" for every group we encounter on the web.
Blocks: AndroidA11yUpdates
Severity: normal → S3
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