Re: tooltip role

Hi James,

>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.

is there some key combination I need to get it read?

regards
Steve

On 9 October 2012 21:46, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>


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