Description lists are defined as name value groups, but currently Take for instance: <dl> <dt> Authors <dd> John <dd> Luke <dt> Editor <dd> Frank </dl> VoiceOver will currently read this as: Description list of 5 items Author, 1 of 5 John, 2 of 5 Luke, 3 of 5 Editor, 4 of 5 Frank, 5 of 5 End of list https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/grouping-content.html#the-dl-element shows that it should be more like: Description list of 2 items group Author John Luke group Editor Frank End of list Currently there is no difference between dt/term/name and dd/description/value, while semantically that difference is clearly indicated, with the <dt> often being in bold as well and/or visually offset.
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Thanks for the bug. This will be resolved in the VoiceOver project, so no change from WebKit will happen. We'll track this internally with the radar created below