Bug 145879

Summary:	AX: <abbr> tag does not expose title= information to VO
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	Derk-Jan Hartman <hartman.wiki>
Component:	Accessibility	Assignee:	Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	Normal	CC:	tomac, webkit-bug-importer
Priority:	P2	Keywords:	InRadar
Version:	528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Derk-Jan Hartman 2015-06-11 05:23:35 PDT

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/abbr

Testcase:
http://jsfiddle.net/TheDJ/768y7npt/

At the very least I would expect Safari+VO, when it settles on the element, to read the title= content, like it does for other elements. Even better would be if it would pronounce something like: "Abbreviation: HTML for Hyper Text Markup Language" on the very first time it would encounter the abbreviation.

Currently it does neither.

Comment 1 Radar WebKit Bug Importer 2015-06-11 05:23:51 PDT

<rdar://problem/21337783>

Comment 2 Derk-Jan Hartman 2022-12-07 05:09:54 PST

Rechecked this 7,5 years later, macOS 13.0.1 and Safari 16.1 unfortunately still do not support the abbr. tag.

Comment 3 Derk-Jan Hartman 2023-10-18 07:04:35 PDT

This too seems to work now in Safari 17 with macOS 14.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/abbr
Ashok's joke made me <abbr title="Laughing out loud">LOL</abbr> big time.

is now read by VO and Safari as:
Ashok's joke made me LOL big time. Laughing out loud, big time.

Comment 4 Derk-Jan Hartman 2023-10-19 04:12:12 PDT

Nvmd. false hope. It seems LOL is some sort of hard coded value in VoiceOver, just as no. is.