NEW 145879
AX: <abbr> tag does not expose title= information to VO 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145879
Summary AX: <abbr> tag does not expose title= information to VO
Derk-Jan Hartman
Reported 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.
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Comment 1 2015-06-11 05:23:51 PDT
<rdar://problem/21337783>
Derk-Jan Hartman
Comment 2 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.
Derk-Jan Hartman
Comment 3 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.
Derk-Jan Hartman
Comment 4 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.
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