Bug 230685

Summary: AX: Expose ARIA combobox value on ATK via "valuetext" object attribute
Product: WebKit Reporter: Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs>
Component: AccessibilityAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: Normal CC: andresg_22, webkit-bug-importer
Priority: P2 Keywords: InRadar
Version: WebKit Nightly Build   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   

Description Joanmarie Diggs 2021-09-23 04:56:12 PDT
ARIA 1.2 says:

> User agents MUST expose the value of elements with role combobox to assistive technologies. The value of a combobox is represented by one of the following:
> * If the combobox element is a host language element that provides a value, such as an HTML input element, the value of the combobox is the value of that element.
> * Otherwise, the value of the combobox is represented by its descendant elements and can be determined using the same method used to compute the name of a button from its descendant content.

Because aria-valuetext isn't supported on combobox, and because there's not really another good place to put it in ATK, we decided that exposure via the "valuetext" object attribute made enough sense. That was implemented in Chrome and Orca.
Comment 1 Radar WebKit Bug Importer 2021-09-23 04:57:04 PDT
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