1269231 - wrapped label not read by screen reader when input type is "number"

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[Rich Caloggero]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:46.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/46.0
Build ID: 20160421124000

Steps to reproduce:

Label not read by screen reader.

```
<label>count: <input type="number"></label>
```

All types other than "number" work fine.

Regression: works in firefox 44.02 and before.




Actual results:

Screen reader does not read the label text of input controls with type number which is wrapped in a label element. 



Expected results:

It should have read the label text.

Comment 1

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

I can confirm this in nightly. Alex, any ideas?

Comment 2

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

I think the bug is spinbutton accessible is not a widget (Accessilbe::IsWidget()), because containing label is ignored on non widgets (see HTMLLabelIterator::Next()). I suspect that it might be not the only one problem: input="type" is exposed as spinbutton with entry as a child, I guess the entry would need to inherit a name from its parent spinbutton to make a screen reader to pick it up.

The bug is needed a volunteer who's willing to play up with code a bit.

Comment 3

[Anna Yeddi [:ayeddi]]

In the current Nightly 120 with Win 11 NVDA 2023.2 reads the input as: count: spin button has auto complete editable blank and the Accessibility Inspector is reporting label parent for text leaf and spinbutton. Appears to be fixed with bug 1555551, thus closing as WFM.

If this is still not working as expected, please do reopen the bug and we'll investigate it.