JAWS does not narrate progressbar name with virtual cursor

[adamsamec]

Summary

JAWS does not narrate the accessible name of an element with the "progressbar" role when focused with the virtual cursor.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Visit this demo page.
2. Using the virtual cursor, navigate to every progressbar element each located under the example <h2> headings.
3. Using the Tab key, navigate to the focusable progressbar element located under the 'Example 3: With tabindex="0" and named using the "aria-label" attribute without element content' <h2> heading.

Expected result

IN all the examples, perhaps except the first 1, when the virtual cursor moves on the given progressbar element, JAWS should narrate the accessible name of the progressbar, that is, in this case, "Updating...", followed by the string "Progress bar Indeterminate".

Especially the example 5 is a pattern which authors would likely use, so the progressbar label narration should be ensured in this case.

Actual result

IN all the examples, when the virtual cursor moves on the given progressbar element, JAWS narrates only "0 Progress bar Indeterminate", that is, it does not narrate the accessible name of the progressbar. However, if moved using the Tab key on a focusable progressbar, as instructed in the point 3 of the repro steps above, the accessible name is read correctly, although even in this case the narration is not perfect, since JAWS should not read "0" as the percentage of the progressbar because it is indeterminate.

Example

Test case that demonstrates the issue.

JAWS version and build number

JAWS Professional 2022.2206.9.

Operating System and version

Windows 11, version 21H2 (OS Build 22000.795)

Browser and version:

Google Chrome, version 103.0.5060.114

[JAWS-test]

Example 1 cannot work because a progressbar does not allow to be labeled with its text content

[adamsamec]

I have modified the issue and provided more examples when the accessible name of a progressbar should definitely be read when focused with the virtual cursor. Please, could you review those changes and examples?

[JAWS-test]

I can confirm that the label is not output acoustically. However, it is displayed on the Braille display. This is a JAWS bug.

By the way, I do not hear "Indeterminate", but "partially activated". This may be a bug related to the language of my JAWS version (I don't use the English version).

[adamsamec]

Hello @JAWS-test ,

the narration of the indeterminate progressbar role has been fixed in JAWS 2022.2206. Before the update, JAWS announced the progressbar as "half checked" as you noted.

[JAWS-test]

The problem that the label is not output acoustically also occurs with the HTML element <progress>. Here, too, the maximum and minimum values are not acoustically perceptible.

[adamsamec]

Yes, apart from the <progress> HTML 5 element, the problem of not reading the element's label can be reproduced also on determinate progressbars, that is, on an element with the "progressbar" role having the "aria-voluenow" attribute set, and also on a <progress> HTML 5 element having the "value" attribute set.

[defalt18]

Using JAWS 2023

Jaws is not narrating the accessible name for progress bar (div with role="progressbar") in the below scenario when focus lands on container div:

<div class="container">
  <span>label</span>
  <div class="progress-container">
     <div role="progressbar"></div>
  </div>
  <!-- .... -->
</div>

I tried giving the container and progress container element aria-live=assertive/polite but it still does not acknowledge the progress bar presence.

[patrickhlauke]

Duplicate of https://github.com/FreedomScientific/standards-support/issues/354 ?