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Unnecessary Document information is announced upon focusing on Bot response message.
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Description
Is it an issue related to Adaptive Cards?
No.
What is the PWD impact?
Visually challenged users who rely on screen readers will be impacted if Unnecessary Document information is announced upon focusing on Bot response message.
What browsers and screen readers do this issue affect?
Others
Are there any code-based customization done to Web Chat?
No, I am using Web Chat without any customizations except "styleOptions".
What version of Web Chat are you using?
Latest production
Which area does this issue affect?
Others or unrelated
What is the public URL for the website?
https://airtuserexpdev.azurewebsites.net/Dashboard
How to reproduce the issue?
Step 1: Open the above URL in Edge Browser.
Step 2: AIRT Dashboard page will appear, Navigate to “Chat with Sage” chat box at the bottom of the page.
Step 3: Enable NVDA and Navigate to Bot response message.
Step 4:Verify whether unnecessary document information is announced upon focusing on Bot response message or not.
What do you expect?
Unnecessary Document information should not be announced upon focusing on Bot response message.
NVDA expected response: "Chat History, bot said "Message."
What actually happened?
Unnecessary Document information is announced upon focusing on Bot response message.
Observation: NVDA announcing as "Chat History, document 1 of 1, bot said "Message".
Do you have any screenshots or recordings to repro the issue?
Did you find any DOM elements that might have caused the issue?
No response
MAS reference
WCAG reference
No response
WAI-ARIA reference
No response
Adaptive Card JSON
No response
Additional context
No response
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the bot response focus behavior at the provided AIRT Dashboard URL in Edge with NVDA, then inspect the Web Chat bot response entry point and its accessibility announcements. Done means focusing the response announces only “Chat History, bot said ‘Message’,” without “document 1 of 1.”
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- html
- Domain
- accessibility, frontend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 40/100