microsoft / microsoft/react-native-gallery

[React Native Gallery]: While navigating in the left navigation pane in scan on mode, narrator focus is falling on the decorative images and narrator remains silent.

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A11ySev3 Area: Accessibility enhancement
Dominant language
TypeScript
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Description

Repro-Steps:
Launch the React Native Gallery app.
Navigate to ‘Navigation bar hamburger icon’ button and invoke it.
Now set narrator to scan on mode using caps+space key and navigate.

Actual Result:
While navigating in the left navigation pane in scan on mode, narrator focus is falling on the decorative images and narrator remains silent.

Expected Result:
When user navigate in left navigation pane in scan on mode, narrator focus should not fall on the icons as it is not providing any information to the user.

User impact:
Users with visual impairments who rely on screen reader will face difficulties if narrator focus fall on the decorative images.

Internal bug link: https://microsoft.visualstudio.com/DefaultCollection/OS/_workitems/edit/43361378

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Research direction

Start by launching the React Native Gallery app and reproducing the issue with Narrator in scan mode after opening the navigation pane with the hamburger button. Inspect the left navigation pane and its decorative icons; done means scan navigation skips those images and Narrator does not stop silently on them.

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Assessment

Tech stack
react-native, typescript
Domain
accessibility, mobile-dev
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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