Opened 9 years ago
Last modified 6 years ago
#10407 open bug
Selectmenu: inaccessible in IE when screen reader is active
Reported by: | dasjestyr | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | minor | Milestone: | none |
Component: | ui.selectmenu | Version: | 1.11.0 |
Keywords: | accessibility | Cc: | |
Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
Observed in IE 11, while screen reader is running, the combobox cannot be expanded nor indexed. Confirmed using current versions of NVDA and JAWS
Change History (7)
comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by
Component: | ui.core → ui.selectmenu |
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comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by
Status: | new → open |
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Summary: | Selectmenu inaccessible in IE when screen reader is active → Selectmenu: inaccessible in IE when screen reader is active |
comment:3 Changed 8 years ago by
Thanks for reporting.
We're having some other a11y edge case issues and currently working on that.
comment:4 Changed 8 years ago by
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. :)
comment:5 Changed 8 years ago by
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.
comment:7 Changed 6 years ago by
Keywords: | accessibility added |
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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.