1809506 - Screen readers do not read contents of aria-live elements when the focus is also changed at the same time.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[jyi]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/108.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Testing Jaws/NVDA on a webpage that changes the contents of aria-live elements.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:108.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/108.0

Actual results:

Screen readers read out the banner logo that navigated back to the home page: "banner landmark clickable Back to the home page visited link"

Expected results:

Testing on other browsers (Chrome, Edge) showed that the screen readers should read out the new contents of the aria-live element.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Disability Access APIs' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[James Teh [:Jamie]]

Please provide a test case (or URL), the exact steps you took and what you expected to be reported. We need this to diagnose the issue. Thanks.

Comment 3

[James Teh [:Jamie]]

We don't have sufficient information to diagnose this. If the problem persists, please provide the information requested in comment 2. Thanks.