microsoft / microsoft/BotFramework-WebChat
[White Label - Card Wizard]: Narrator is not announcing the label information for Name button.
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Description
Is it an issue related to Adaptive Cards?
No response
What is the PWD impact?
Screen reader users are unable to understand the purpose of the Name button, preventing them from interacting independently with the UI and potentially blocking task completion.
What browsers and screen readers do this issue affect?
Windows: Edge with Windows Narrator
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?
No response
How to reproduce the issue?
Pre-Requisite:
Turn on Narrator
Repro Steps
- Open URL: chro and sign in using valid credentials.
- Navigate to web chat page and select 4.18.1-main.20240927.ea7a875 (30/9/2024) version and then select mockBot link under present label and then select open web chat in new window link at bottom.
3.Navigate to white label experience chat page and type Card Wizard word in type your message text box. - Response will appear.
- Navigate to the Name control.
- Observe an issue that Narrator announcing incorrect role as toggle button for Name button.
What do you expect?
The element should expose a programmatically determinable accessible name so that Narrator clearly announces the label associated with the Name button.
Observation: When focus lands on Name control narrator should announce please provide the following information Name control.
What actually happened?
Narrator is not announcing the label information for Name button.
Observation: when focus lands on Name button it is announcing as Name toggle button on.
Do you have any screenshots or recordings to repro the issue?
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/22f70c90-0aaa-4391-a22f-f9ae528ac926
Did you find any DOM elements that might have caused the issue?
No response
MAS reference
No response
WCAG reference
https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/name-role-value
WAI-ARIA reference
No response
Adaptive Card JSON
Additional context
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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 white-label Card Wizard flow with Windows Narrator and focus on the Name control. Inspect how that control exposes its role and accessible name, then verify that Narrator announces the expected label information instead of “Name toggle button on.”
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- html
- Domain
- accessibility, frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100