Bug 212475 – AX: VoiceOver does not announce the formatting applied via strong, em, b or i elements

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

[Todd Kloots]

Created attachment 400474 [details]
Screen recording of testing the reference example in VoiceOver

VoiceOver does not announce the formatting applied via strong, em, b or i elements. 

I tested using a very rudimentary example page using Safari 13.1 in Mac OS 10.15.4.

To reproduce this issue:
1. Go to https://codepen.io/toddlr/pen/PoPBoxO
2. Choose "Speak attributes" for the "When text attributes change" in VoiceOver's Verbosity settings
3. When focused on a text node pressing VO + t to speak the text attributes
4. I have attached a screen recording for you to verify

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/63723160>

[Todd Kloots]

Created attachment 400475 [details]
VoiceOver does announce formatting of bold and italics in TextEdit

I tested a similarly formatted, simple document in TextEdit and the formatting WAS announced by VoiceOver.

[Todd Kloots]

Any update on this issue? It has been open for ~2 months without any perceivable progress.

[chris fleizach]

We have determined that this is a VoiceOver only issue. The bug has been reported to that team and the radar in this report will be used to track it. Thank you

[Sommer Panage]

This appears to have been fixed based on testing in Safari Version 15.6.1 (17613.3.9.1.16), on Mac 12.6 (21G115). 

[Still an issue in Chrome unfortunately.]