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Contains documentation for Vispero software support of Web standards
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Name attribute unexpectedly being used as accName for elements #725

Closed scottaohara closed 1 year ago

scottaohara commented 1 year ago

In testing the chrome canary implementation of using the name attribute to associate details elements HTML PR 9400 having more context for this update, JAWS 2022 with chromium browsers (not firefox) were using the name attribute to give the details an accessible name.

This resulted in the following reduced code example being announces as multiple "test" groups.

<details name=test>...</details>
<details name=test>...</details>
<details name=test>...</details>

This does not appear to be reflected in the a11y tree of chrome, and latest NVDA, for instance, did not announce these elements as being named, either.

Further testing shows that it isn't just details that this was happening with, but other HTML elements which can be given an accName (but not all) would inconsistently get an accName from the name attribute. Leading me to believe there is something specific with JAWS/Chrome and that maybe this is an attempt to mitigate author error (maybe for those thinking name will "name" an element)?

Expected result

Do not expose the value of a name attribute as the accName for an element. Particularly details elements as with the HTML change, it will become expected to use name on these elements for a purpose that is not to provide the element an accName.

Example

A test case that demonstrates the issue.

Additional Information

JAWS version and build number

JAWS 2022 (don't have build number on me at this time) - i realize i'm not using the latest JAWS version - so I realize there's a possibility that the latest version doesn't replicate, which would be great. but, this seems rather specific/potentially on purpose, so not too sure...

Operating System and version

Win 11

Browser and version:

Chrome canary latest

stevefaulkner commented 1 year ago

Thanks @scottaohara will test in latest

stevefaulkner commented 1 year ago

@scottaohara tested with JAWS 2022 could reproduce. Then tested with JAWS 2303.2306.38 (June update) and chrome Version 114.0.5735.199 (Official Build) (64-bit). could not reproduce.

scottaohara commented 1 year ago

thank you @stevefaulkner