Reported by MarcoZehe on 2014-04-24 07:27
In Firefox, when in browse mode, the role and states for ARIA menuitemcheckbox and menuitemradio role items are not spoken to the user. Right now, ARIA menu items are only announced as "clickable" text when browsing them with the virtual cursor. Turning off browse mode and arrowing/tabbing is much better. However NVDA should expose the semantics in browse mode as well so the user knows they're dealing with menu item checkboxes or radio buttons. Sean Curtis has a sample page here. Just explore them with both browse mode on and off and hear the difference. Especially after role application treatment as browse mode off is no longer mandatory, it can be expected that people browse these menu item types more with the virtual cursor now.
I've also seen this problem in Facebook, Gmail and other places with proper ARIA coding.
Reported by MarcoZehe on 2014-04-24 07:27
In Firefox, when in browse mode, the role and states for ARIA menuitemcheckbox and menuitemradio role items are not spoken to the user. Right now, ARIA menu items are only announced as "clickable" text when browsing them with the virtual cursor. Turning off browse mode and arrowing/tabbing is much better. However NVDA should expose the semantics in browse mode as well so the user knows they're dealing with menu item checkboxes or radio buttons. Sean Curtis has a sample page here. Just explore them with both browse mode on and off and hear the difference. Especially after role application treatment as browse mode off is no longer mandatory, it can be expected that people browse these menu item types more with the virtual cursor now.
I've also seen this problem in Facebook, Gmail and other places with proper ARIA coding.