Open ghost opened 4 years ago
The problem also exists with JAWS 2019.
The output of "Region" is also done for other ARIA landmark regions such as
but not for
The output of "Region" only occurs for elements that cause a change to form mode.
The problem has existed for a long time (at least since JAWS 15)
The problem does not occur in Chrome.
The main problems seem to be:
Correct would be (as in Chrome):
It might make sense:
A similar issue has been filed internally as bug #108116.
A similar issue has been filed internally as bug #108116.
@BrettLewisVispero is this still an internal issue?
Summary
At least with IE 11, when using
<main>
, JAWS 2018 announced the main region when you first navigate into it. But if then does not repeat this information. This seems to generally work well.However, again with IE11, if you have form fields within a container with
role="main"
, the behavour is differant. Every time you tab onto a field, JAWS announced "region".Expected result
I would expect that the behavour of main and role="main" to be the same. In this case, I would expect role="main" to behave like main and not echo "region".
Example
This can be seen with ...