Re: [orca-list] aria-label on links not read by Orca

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Alex.

Orca should now present the label when speaking the link. Note that I
have not yet changed the braille behavior or the caret navigation. So if
you do something like:

   <a href="bla.html" aria-label="foo">What sighted users can see</a>

Tabbing to the link should result in "foo" being spoken. But you cannot
arrow amongst the characters f o o because those characters are not on
the screen and Orca does not have any sort of virtual buffer. So you
have a choice:

1. I can leave things the way they are (you can navigate amongst "What
   sighted users can see"), or

2. I can make textual links which have aria-label work more like images
   (i.e. prevent navigation in "what sighted users can see", which is
   the case if you had an image link which displayed a graphic with
   those words in it).

Which would you like me to do?

--joanie

On 03/29/2018 05:02 AM, Alex ARNAUD wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Environment:
> - Debian sid
> - Firefox 59
> - Orca master
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1) Open Firefox
> 2) Paste this content on the URL bar: data:text/html, <a
> href="taxhike.html" aria-label="Read more about Seminole tax hike">[Read
> more...]</a>
> This content comes from:
> https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Using_aria-label_for_link_purpose#Examples
>
> Result: Orca reads "Read more..."
> Expected results: Orca should read "Read more about Seminole tax hike"
>
> The final use case is to make image links (without img) readable by Orca
> with aria-label. For example: <a class="icon-thumbs-up" title="Accept
> translation" style="" id="gwt-debug-target-0-accept"></a>
> I assume adding aria-label should make the link readable by Orca.
>
> Best regards.