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JAWS doesn't read aria-label for menu groups
Summary
Example:
- Go to https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.1/examples/menubar/menubar-2/menubar-2.html
- Open Style/Color submenu
- Navigate with Jaws through menu items
Expected result
Aria-labels for
<ul role="group">should be read to announce information about each type of menuitems
Actual result
Aria-labels are not read, only labels of menuitems
Additional Information
Speech History: https://i.imgur.com/qTsjw76.png
JAWS version and build number
JAWS 18.0.5038 and JAWS 2018.1811.30
Operating System and version
Windows 10 Enterprise
Browser and version:
Chrome 79.0, Firefox 72.0
Hello @Leuvarden,
I don't see any aria-label for the menuitems. Could you describe what output do you expect exactly?
Would you mind explaining the "I see what you mean" as I'm not getting the issue. I'm on Chrome 83 and Jaws 2020. Thanks.
the specific markup example in the original post was not surrounded by markdown tic-marks to have it properly render.
the issue is that there are instances of ul with role=group and aria-label=name-of-group in the APG example that JAWS was not reading at the time of this ticket being created, and were still an issue as of June 8th.
The expectation is that if authors are properly grouping menuitems within a group, which is a valid child of the role=menu then the group title should be announced by JAWS when a user navigates into the new grouping of menuitems.
Retesting with Chrome 83 and JAWS 2020.2006.12 with the APG 1.2 pattern (which fixes some markup issues with the 1.1 pattern) the group labels are not announced when navigating between the exposed menu groupings.
Are there any updates on this? I still see the issue currently with JAWS 2022. Here's a very simplified repro for testing if it helps: https://jsfiddle.net/ac7guekz/
