Bug 269026
| Summary: | AX: Voiceover on the Mac does not properly support aria-activedescendant | ||
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| Product: | WebKit | Reporter: | Bryan Garaventa <b> |
| Component: | Accessibility | Assignee: | Nobody <webkit-unassigned> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Blocker | CC: | andresg_22, aroselli, jcraig, jesse.greenberg, webkit-bug-importer |
| Priority: | P2 | Keywords: | InRadar |
| Version: | WebKit Nightly Build | ||
| Hardware: | Mac (Apple Silicon) | ||
| OS: | macOS 14 | ||
| See Also: | https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167671 | ||
Bryan Garaventa
Voiceover on the Mac does not properly support aria-activedescendant to ensure accessibility for the blind.
This is related to the prior bug: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167671 Which was said to be resolved, however it is not.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Visit: https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/combobox/examples/combobox-select-only/
2. Attempt to read the available options using the up/down arrow keys with Voiceover running.
3. Confirm that nothing is announced to convey the currently active option.
This is a critical stopper for blind Voiceover users, not just for the Combobox design pattern, but for all implementations that use aria-activedescendant to convey selection.
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Radar WebKit Bug Importer
<rdar://problem/122590052>
jesse.greenberg
We encountered this today - aria-activedescendent is broken. Tested on MacOS 14.5.
These examples do not work with Safari: https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/combobox/examples/grid-combo/ and https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/combobox/examples/combobox-autocomplete-list/
Andres Gonzalez
This problem is addressed in MacOs Sequoia 15. Please re-test with a recent build of MacOS 15.
James Craig
Of note, macOS 15 Sequoia is in beta release, so you can preview this fix by downloading and installing the beta at developer.apple.com
Adrian Roselli
Thanks to a kind soul (Roberto Perez) on Mastodon, it appears this is fixed:
https://tweesecake.social/@rperez030/113058633044394970
(I am not in a position to run a beta OS on my Mac.)