Elements that use .visually-hidden and .focusable aren’t read when using VoiceOver in iOS or in Chrome

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Created on 2 April 2015, over 9 years ago

Updated 30 January 2023, almost 2 years ago

Problem/Motivation

Elements that use .visually-hidden and .focusable classes (such as the skiplink) are not read when using the VoiceOver screenreader in iOS (iPhone or iPad) or in Chrome on a Mac.

For an easy demo of this problem, try listening to the skiplinks here on d.o with VoiceOver either on an iOS device or in Chrome on a Mac. Even though d.o is using D7 and the classes have different names, the styles are the same as in D8.

This problem doesn’t appear in the Seven theme because it sets the position to absolute when focusable elements are focused.

Proposed resolution

Using the HTML5 Boilerplate version of the visually-hidden and focusable styles and removing position: static from the focusable styles fixed this problem for me.

Required Tests

Let's make sure there are no regressions in these other AT:

JAWS - Untested
NVDA - Untested
VoiceOver - Untested
ChromeVox - Untested

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Status

Needs work

Version

10.1 ✨

Component

Last updated about 10 hours ago

Maintained by
🇹🇼Taiwan @johnalbin
🇺🇸United States @mherchel

Created by

🇺🇸United States dcmouyard

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It affects the ability of people with disabilities or special needs (such as blindness or color-blindness) to use Drupal.

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The change/bugfix cannot be fully demonstrated by automated testing, and thus requires manual testing in a variety of environments.

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Comment almost 2 years ago →
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The Needs Review Queue Bot → tested this issue. It either no longer applies to Drupal core, or fails the Drupal core commit checks. Therefore, this issue status is now "Needs work".

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Comment over 1 year ago →
🇨🇦Canada mgifford Ottawa, Ontario
We really should fix this!

This could possibly fall under a few SC, but I'm putting it under https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/name-role-value
Comment 12 months ago →
🇺🇸United States ricksta
I'm not experiencing any problems with Apple VoiceOver. Skip link is being read.

MacBook Pro Sonoma 14.1
Drupal version 11.0-dev

Private windows opened in:
Google Chrome: Version 119.0.6045.199
Firefox: 120.0.1 (for this I used Chris Pederick's Web Developer tools simulator for iOS 12/13, Pro max IOS 114.6)
Comment about 1 month ago →
saurav-drupal-dev
tried to reproduce it but as comment #29 mentioned and for me also the voice over issue i am not facing it tried on chrome and safari for ios and for desktop too.

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