Bug 276690 – AX: Voiceover/Safari is not reading the contents of divs with role=“tooltip”

• Status: REOPENED
• Component: Accessibility

[Greg Jellin]

Voiceover/Safari is not reading the contents of divs with role=“tooltip”, referenced by aria-described, if the div with role=“tooltip” is dynamically updated. At Salesforce, we use a single element for tooltips, and update that element when necessary. This is working in Chrome, but not Safari.

Steps to reproduce:
Visit the codepen: https://codepen.io/arodenbeck-sf/full/qBGRrQj
Notice that when you tab to Test 1, and Test 2, things work as expected. Tests 3-5 are not read out by Voiceover, and the CTRL+Option+CMD+/ command is not bringing up the more content menu.
Strangely, when tested in Salesforce, these tooltips were being read when tabbed too, but not if using VO navigation where keyboard focus follows VO focus.

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/131877635>

[Tyler Wilcock]

Pull request: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/32367

[EWS]

Committed 282430@main (70128b4a24b6): <https://commits.webkit.org/282430@main>

Reviewed commits have been landed. Closing PR #32367 and removing active labels.

[EWS]

Committed 280938.249@safari-7619-branch (e092010b0323): <https://commits.webkit.org/280938.249@safari-7619-branch>

Reviewed commits have been landed. Closing PR #1619 and removing active labels.

[Greg Jellin]

Hello, we have discovered that this bug is still occurring on Safari iOS. When we update a container with new content and reference it by an aria-describedby, VoiceOver announces the content that was within the container previously. Please take a look at this on iOS.

[Greg Jellin]

Reopening