Bug 212475

Summary:

AX: VoiceOver does not announce the formatting applied via strong, em, b or i elements

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Todd Kloots <todd.kloots>

Component:

Accessibility

Assignee:

Nobody <webkit-unassigned>

Status:

RESOLVED MOVED

Severity:

Normal

CC:

cfleizach, spanage, webkit-bug-importer

Priority:

Keywords:

InRadar

Version:

Safari 13

Hardware:

Mac

OS:

iOS 13

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Screen recording of testing the reference example in VoiceOver	none
VoiceOver does announce formatting of bold and italics in TextEdit	none

Description Todd Kloots 2020-05-28 10:21:46 PDT

Created attachment 400474 [details]
Screen recording of testing the reference example in VoiceOver

VoiceOver does not announce the formatting applied via strong, em, b or i elements. 

I tested using a very rudimentary example page using Safari 13.1 in Mac OS 10.15.4.

To reproduce this issue:
1. Go to https://codepen.io/toddlr/pen/PoPBoxO
2. Choose "Speak attributes" for the "When text attributes change" in VoiceOver's Verbosity settings
3. When focused on a text node pressing VO + t to speak the text attributes
4. I have attached a screen recording for you to verify

Comment 1 Radar WebKit Bug Importer 2020-05-28 10:22:05 PDT

<rdar://problem/63723160>

Comment 2 Todd Kloots 2020-05-28 10:25:38 PDT

Created attachment 400475 [details]
VoiceOver does announce formatting of bold and italics in TextEdit

I tested a similarly formatted, simple document in TextEdit and the formatting WAS announced by VoiceOver.

Comment 3 Todd Kloots 2020-07-15 14:03:14 PDT

Any update on this issue? It has been open for ~2 months without any perceivable progress.

Comment 4 chris fleizach 2020-11-20 22:23:19 PST

We have determined that this is a VoiceOver only issue. The bug has been reported to that team and the radar in this report will be used to track it. Thank you

Comment 5 Sommer Panage 2022-10-17 14:57:33 PDT

This appears to have been fixed based on testing in Safari Version 15.6.1 (17613.3.9.1.16), on Mac 12.6 (21G115). 

[Still an issue in Chrome unfortunately.]