Bug 180742 – VoiceOver in Safari does not distinguish between names and values in description lists.

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: MOVED
• Component: Accessibility

[Derk-Jan Hartman]

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.

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/36017162>

[chris fleizach]

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