Bug 212475 - AX: VoiceOver does not announce the formatting applied via strong, em, b or i elements
Summary: AX: VoiceOver does not announce the formatting applied via strong, em, b or i...
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Accessibility (show other bugs)
Version: Safari 13
Hardware: Mac iOS 13
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
URL:
Keywords: InRadar
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2020-05-28 10:21 PDT by Todd Kloots
Modified: 2022-10-17 14:57 PDT (History)
3 users (show)

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Screen recording of testing the reference example in VoiceOver (17.72 MB, video/quicktime)
2020-05-28 10:21 PDT, Todd Kloots 		no flags Details
VoiceOver does announce formatting of bold and italics in TextEdit (7.04 MB, video/quicktime)
2020-05-28 10:25 PDT, Todd Kloots 		no flags Details
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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.]