Bug 185219 – AX: In role=dialog elements with aria-modal=true VoiceOver iOS/macOS can't manually focus or read dialog paragraph description text inside the modal.

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: Accessibility

[Paul J. Adam]

Created attachment 339346 [details]
dialog demo page

Steps to Reproduce: 
1. Turn on VoiceOver on macOS or iOS latest stable public versions. 
2. Visit http://pauljadam.com/demos/dialog.html in Safari and open the modal dialog. 
3. Manually move VoiceOver screen reader focus to the <p> text "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

Actual Results: 
1. VoiceOver skips over the text "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." and cannot focus on that text or read it manually. 

Expected Results:
1. VoiceOver focuses and reads the text "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/39920009>

[Nan Wang]

Created attachment 340202 [details]
patch

[EWS Watchlist]

Attachment 340202 [details] did not pass style-queue:


ERROR: Source/WebCore/accessibility/AccessibilityObject.cpp:2091:  Declaration has space between type name and * in Node *node  [whitespace/declaration] [3]
Total errors found: 1 in 5 files


If any of these errors are false positives, please file a bug against check-webkit-style.

[Nan Wang]

Created attachment 340203 [details]
patch

update style

[WebKit Commit Bot]

Comment on attachment 340203 [details]
patch

Clearing flags on attachment: 340203

Committed r231720: <https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/231720>

[WebKit Commit Bot]

All reviewed patches have been landed.  Closing bug.