Re: tooltip role from James Craig on 2012-10-09 (wai-xtech@w3.org from October 2012)

From: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:46:43 -0700
To: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
Cc: W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, Andi Snow-Weaver <andisnow@us.ibm.com>, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com>, W3C WAI Protocols & Formats <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>
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On Oct 9, 2012, at 1:51 AM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote:

> test file https://dl.dropbox.com/u/377471/tests/tooltip-gez.html
> 
> I haven't checked events fired in Safari 6 on Mac OS Lion with Voiceover, but can confirm that the ARIA tooltip in the test case file does not get announced by VoiceOver.

The tooltip speaks as expected for me with VoiceOver on Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2) and Safari 6.0.1. Both the native and ARIA tooltip are spoken as the help tag.

James

Received on Tuesday, 9 October 2012 20:47:51 UTC