Bug 145970 – AX: <legend> should be announced by Voiceover / screenreader

• Component: Accessibility
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[goetsu]

<legend> inside a <fieldset> must be announced as title of the group.

When user have focus on input inside a fieldset with a legend the legend must be used as a description of the inputs like with aria-describedby.
Furthermore if you have multiple nested fieldset with legend the description must inherit all the legend value

Here is my test case http://codepen.io/goetsu/pen/ZGJOWg

This have been resolved in the past but it look to be broken again :
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20887
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122534

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/21380574>

[James Craig]

This is is not a WebKit bug. WebKit exposes the fieldset and legend the same way it always has.

Reference LayoutTest run on every commit.
https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/LayoutTests/accessibility/fieldset-element.html
https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/LayoutTests/accessibility/fieldset-element-expected.txt

VoiceOver's behavior changed in 2014, and is tracked as <rdar://problem/17919418>

[Steve Faulkner]

(In reply to comment #2)
> This is is not a WebKit bug. WebKit exposes the fieldset and legend the same
> way it always has.
> 
> Reference LayoutTest run on every commit.
> https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/LayoutTests/accessibility/
> fieldset-element.html
> https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/LayoutTests/accessibility/
> fieldset-element-expected.txt
> 
> VoiceOver's behavior changed in 2014, and is tracked as
> <rdar://problem/17919418>

Guessing that <rdar://problem/17919418> is not public. Is there any indication that this VO bug will be fixed and in what time frame? Intersted as a client is asking whether they need to change their coding practices to work around this bug.