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JAWS - navigation instruction for menu with aria-orientation="horizontal"
Summary
Brief description of the issue. Please list any specific steps.
Example:
- Go to https://codesandbox.io/s/stardust-ui-example-98ftk
- Navigate by TAB into the menu item
Expected result
Menu has attribute aria-orientation="horizontal", but user get message like for vertical menu.
Actual result
JAWS narrate (take look on the instruction message): """ Editorials 1 of 3 To move through items press up or down arrow. """
Example
A test case that demonstrates the issue - provide linked test case, CodePen, JSbin, etc...
Additional Information
JAWS version and build number
2019.1904.60
Operating System and version
Windows 10 Enterprise Version 1903
Browser and version:
Chrome 74.0.3729.169
JAWS ignores the aria-orientation attribute. It only works with sliders. This applies to various browsers and also older versions of JAWS.
If the JAWS ignores the aria-orientation attribute, why JAWS is providing the instruction message such "To move through items press up or down arrow." ? if such instruction is not valid for horizontal menu. How the JAWS user knows the orientation of the menu?
Yes, that's exactly the bug of JAWS. I just wanted to confirm that the problem is not only with Chrome and not only with role=menu, but of a general nature and should be solved by Freedom Scientific.
JAWS 2020.2012 and 2021 on a couple of different machines for a couple different users, with Chrome, is ignoring aria-orientation for <input type="range" /> and reporting these as "left right slider"s.
A test page that shows this is here: http://www.manateeroad.com/BugReports/InputRangeOrientation.html (The problem does not happen in JAWS 2021 with Firefox at all. In JAWS 2020 with Firefox, explicitly setting role to slider resolves this.)
Please let me know if it would be better to list this a separate issue.
tested with JAWS 2024.2310.70 https://codesandbox.io/s/stardust-ui-example-98ftk navigating to first item JAWS announces # of items, posinset and use left/right arrows to navigate
re-opening this as the support appears to be flaky: works on https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/stardust-ui-example-98ftk does not work on https://codepen.io/stevef/pen/XWGjZzw
tested with: JAWS 2024.2312.53 and chrome Version 120.0.6099.200 (Official Build) (64-bit) It is expected that JAWS would announce use of left/right arrows on both. Orientation of the menu is exposed in acc tree on both test cases.
Also note that JAWS announces each menu item as "menu" not "menu item"
related https://github.com/FreedomScientific/standards-support/issues/411
A further wrinkle observed:
When the visual display of the controls is horizontal JAWS does announce the expected instruction (use left/right arrow keys), so it appears that aria-orientation is ignored in favour of visually based heuristics, implemented in JAWS