Bug 279256 – REGRESSION: Children of HTML label element are read twice by VoiceOver

• Status: NEW
• Component: Accessibility

[Matyas]

Label is permitted to have phrasing content as children: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/label#technical_summary , but Safari reads its children erroneously twice.

VoiceOver reads every child twice, an example: 

<label for="testid2">
  <span>this is read twice in Safari and FF</span>
  <input type="text" id="testid2" placeholder="test2" />
</label>

same in CodeSandbox: https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/727pzq

OSX 14.6.1, Safari 17.6

Ps: This looks like a reintroduction of this fixed bug: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191743

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/135479312>

[Klaus]

see https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230824