Reported by jteh on 2011-05-05 10:17
NVDA never speaks any focus ancestors when auto switching to focus mode due to a focus change. This means that if you tab to a list in browse mode and focus lands on a list item, NVDA will switch to focus mode and announce the list item, but not the list.

Test case: http://public.yahoo.com/kloots/aria/describedby.html