Landmarks with aria-labelledby tested positive but actually does not work

[hrvojegolcic]

Current state

The page examples/headings/alternative-techniques under the heading "Description using ARIA (optional)" contains a codepan example and a positive test case as such:

Issue

I've re-tested locally and noticed the following 2 issues while testing this example:

1. NVDA: Landmark label ignored if aria-labelledby refers a child element. It means that a distinguishable landmark label is not announced at all aside to a landmark role when navigating by a TAB key. See:
   

2. IE 11 is very funny about it. When navigating by TAB key apparently if aria-labelledby is used on a landmark (e.g. nav, region) NVDA+IE 11 will read the entire inner content as a landmark label unless it refers to an "IE accessible element" (Must have a role or tabindex). See my testing with TAB key:
   

Therefore it seems like the example and the test case are no longer valid for NVDA.

My setup

• Windows 8.1
• NVDA 2020.1
• Chrome 80.0.3987.122
• Edge 83.0.478.61
• Firefox 77.0.1
• IE 11.0.9600.19724 (version update 11.0.195)

[jmuheim]

Dear @hrvojegolcic

Thanks for your thorough investigation and explanation. First of all, we don't support IE11 in general anymore (we adapted to current user statistics, see https://www.accessibility-developer-guide.com/knowledge/screen-readers/relevant-combinations/#what-about-ie). Also, we never supported IE11+NVDA.

So is this still a problem? I'm not certain what combination of NVDA+browser you used for the first example, and whether what you're describing is a problem? 😃

[hrvojegolcic]

Hi @jmuheim, thank you for your response.

In that case the second issue can be ignored but the first issue unfortunately still remains, as reported directly to NVDA repo.

I've tested with (then) newest NVDA and newest Firefox versions and it does NOT PASS.
Exact setup and versions are mentioned in the post.
I did not test with old NVDA and old Firefox Quantum 59 and either way this would be outdated now. The issue does exists.

[backflip]

@ManuA4A, could Franco have a look at this, too?

[backflip]

Successfully tested with latest NVDA (2023.1) on latest Firefox (112) on Windows 11. I will update the test result matrix accordingly.