Bug 151496 – AX: aria-owns attribute does not work as expected

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: INVALID
• Component: Accessibility

[Jonathan Dallas]

The expectation for aria-owns is that a developer can use it to group controls that are not otherwise grouped in DOM.

Spec for of aria-owns: http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#aria-owns

Here is a test case:
    <div role="radiogroup" aria-owns="r1 r2 r3">
       <div role="radio" id="r1">Alpha</div>
       <div role="radio" id="r1">Beta</div>
    </div>
    <!-- this one, too. -->
    <div role="radio" id="r3">Gamma</div>

In this case the 3rd radio button "Gamma" should be included in the radio group. However, when VoiceOver looks at this it only sees two radio buttons in the group, the 3rd is announced as a radio button without a group.

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/23629963>

[Jonathan Dallas]

Created attachment 265958 [details]
Demo of the test case in the problem description

Attaching a demo of the test case in the problem description.

[Jonathan Dallas]

Typo in the bug description. :/ Will refile.