Selectmenu: inaccessible in IE when screen reader is active

[dasjestyr]

Observed in IE 11, while screen reader is running, the combobox cannot be expanded nor indexed. Confirmed using current versions of NVDA and JAWS

[tj.vantoll]

Confirmed with JAWS on ​http://jqueryui.com/resources/demos/selectmenu/default.html. The space bar and up/down arrows do nothing when JAWS is active for some reason.

[Felix Nagel]

Thanks for reporting.

We're having some other a11y edge case issues and currently working on that.

[joshgrossnz]

Has there been any progress on this? I've noticed the same issue, using NVDA and IE11.

Interestingly enough, NVDA can read the selectmenu fine if the selectmenu is inside an iframe.

For example, if you look at this page with NVDA, it can read the selectmenu:

​http://jqueryui.com/selectmenu/

That page contains an iframe, which has the actual selectmenu. If you go directly to the page with the selectmenu and try it there, NVDA can't read it:

​http://jqueryui.com/resources/demos/selectmenu/default.html

I've recreated this by creating two dummy pages on my local environment - the first page has a selectmenu, and the second page has an iframe that includes the first page. As above, NVDA can read the selectmenu on the second page, but not the first page.

Probably the first time I've come across a screenreader that can read things inside an iframe easier than things outside an iframe - you'd think it would be the other way around. :)

[ftrujillojr]

Has there been any progress or fix for this? Change the jsfiddle from jQuery 1.10.1 to anything else and it does not work.

​http://jsfiddle.net/ftrujillojr/stm8xb2h/

[Scott González]

When there is progress, the ticket will be updated.