email screen reader output

[pmarsh-scottlogic]

Bug report

Description

When NVDA reads out an email, the phrasing is weird.

Reproduction steps

1. Send an email
2. Enable NVDA
3. Focus the sent email
4. Observe NVDA readout

"Email to. [email protected] subject. Greetings email body. Hello bob."

Expected behaviour

The readout is something more like: "Email. To: [email protected]. Subject. Greetings. Email body. Hello bob."

Software (please complete the following information):

• Browser: chrome
• Screenreader: NVDA

Acceptance criteria

GIVEN screenreader enabled [nvda] WHEN focus a sent email THEN readout is phrased better

QUESTION: How to implement? We could change the tags so that "email" and "to" and "from" and "email body" become headers. Would that make the sections clearer? Or we could add <section> tags? Or we could add hidden punctiation (good article).

[chriswilty]

Can we investigate this a little more, in both NVDA and Narrator. Are there natural gaps between paragraphs, is that a setting in the screen-reader, do both output the same gaps?