Bug 15817 - Cannot read multiple select with VoiceOver
Summary: Cannot read multiple select with VoiceOver
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Accessibility (show other bugs)
Version: 523.x (Safari 3)
Hardware: Mac OS X 10.4
: P2 Major
Assignee: Nobody
URL: http://benjaminhawkeslewis.com/www/te...
Keywords: InRadar
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Reported: 2007-11-03 07:03 PDT by Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Modified: 2008-07-24 11:40 PDT (History)
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Description Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis 2007-11-03 07:03:08 PDT
Moving around with the VoiceOver cursor (Control-Option-Right and Control-Option-Down) multiple select controls are simply skipped. If you tab to the control, VoiceOver say "HTML Content", but you cannot interact with the select control as a group (Control-Option-Shift-Down). If you press the arrow keys to move between the different options or press keys to select items, nothing is read. This is a problem in WebKit Nightly on Tiger and is a regression from Safari 2, which treated multiple selects as a sort of table. I cannot personally verify it, but it also a big problem in Safari 3.0.4 on Leopard. See the "Massive form oversight multi-select list boxes" thread on the MacVisionaries mailing list:

http://macvisionaries.com/pipermail/discuss_macvisionaries.com/2007-November/thread.html

There appears to be no workaround for this.
Comment 1 Alexey Proskuryakov 2008-01-28 10:21:33 PST
<rdar://problem/5710320>
Comment 2 Greg Kearney 2008-03-19 07:10:25 PDT
This is a critical bug that is preventing the disabled from fully using websites. In some reported cases the disabled have been unable to apply for jobs because of this.
Comment 3 chris fleizach 2008-07-24 11:40:26 PDT
fixed