Bug 69736 – Wrapped <label> elements aren't reported by screen readers

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

[Alice Boxhall]

See http://www.html5accessibility.com/tests/form-labels.html.

[Alice Boxhall]

Created attachment 110326 [details]
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[chris fleizach]

Comment on attachment 110326 [details]
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Changing <label> to be static text will cause all elements inside the <label> to be lost. Thus <label>label<input></label> will not report the <input> as an element, which will be a regression.

I just tested that website with VoiceOver on Lion, and it seems that VoiceOver reads all of the labels for the input fields. What is motivating this change?

[chris fleizach]

Note I did see that on test 7, VO repeated the label twice. I filed a VoiceOVer bug for that (rdar://10257905)

[David Tseng]

The issue on Snow Leopard (haven't tried it on Lion) (on test cases 3 and greater):
•  VO-cmd-j to the edit field

result:
voiceover reads "edit text"

expected: voiceover reads "label wrapped  edit text"

We suspect that the root cause is because the title UI element is a parent of the text field being labeled. If VoiceOver follows alll references to title UI elements, this would cause a cycle (so perhaps VO ignores this case)?

reproduces on both Chrome and  WebKit r97062

[chris fleizach]

(In reply to comment #4)
> The issue on Snow Leopard (haven't tried it on Lion) (on test cases 3 and greater):
> •  VO-cmd-j to the edit field
> 
> result:
> voiceover reads "edit text"
> 
> expected: voiceover reads "label wrapped  edit text"
> 
> We suspect that the root cause is because the title UI element is a parent of the text field being labeled. If VoiceOver follows alll references to title UI elements, this would cause a cycle (so perhaps VO ignores this case)?
> 
> reproduces on both Chrome and  WebKit r97062

This was a VoiceOver bug. Fixed in Lion.

[Alice Boxhall]

Ah, ok.

[Ryosuke Niwa]

Is this bug fixed for Lion? Can we close it then? Does WebKit pass all test cases on http://www.html5accessibility.com/tests/form-labels.html now?

[Alice Boxhall]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Is this bug fixed for Lion? Can we close it then? Does WebKit pass all test cases on http://www.html5accessibility.com/tests/form-labels.html now?

Yes, with the exception of the duplication mentioned by Chris.