Bug 263979 - AX: comboboxes with aria-activedescendant but no aria-owns no longer work
Summary: AX: comboboxes with aria-activedescendant but no aria-owns no longer work
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Accessibility (show other bugs)
Version: WebKit Nightly Build
Hardware: All macOS 14
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
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Keywords: InRadar
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Reported: 2023-10-31 09:52 PDT by Dominic Mazzoni
Modified: 2023-11-03 10:10 PDT (History)
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Description Dominic Mazzoni 2023-10-31 09:52:27 PDT 
WebKit should fire a notification when aria-activedescendant changes on a combobox, so that AT can announce the selected child.

Previously this worked, but a refactor (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240357) led it to only work when the combobox uses aria-owns or aria-controls. It should also work when the author doesn’t use those.
Comment 1 Radar WebKit Bug Importer 2023-10-31 09:52:37 PDT 
<rdar://problem/117747058>
Comment 2 Dominic Mazzoni 2023-10-31 10:47:00 PDT 
Pull request: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/19777
Comment 3 EWS 2023-11-03 10:10:52 PDT 
Committed 270182@main (481028cb765b): <https://commits.webkit.org/270182@main>

Reviewed commits have been landed. Closing PR #19777 and removing active labels.