Firefox for Windows reporting false positives.

Created on 2 May 2024, 7 months ago
Updated 22 May 2024, 6 months ago

Problem/Motivation

We have confirmed reports that Firefox on Windows, including the latest version, experiences an issue with "aria-label" attributes being ignored when testing for link text, giving a false positive of "Link with no accessible text" on elements that have no link text but have a valid aria-label. It does not happen on Firefox on Linux, nor in Chrome/Edge. We are seeing some "A specified shadow host has no shadowRoot." warnings in the console, but are not sure if that is related.

Screenshots are taken from https://engineering.osu.edu/faculty-career-opportunities

Firefox - false positive:

Element in question with "aria-label":

Same page element in Chrome:

Steps to reproduce

This is difficult to reproduce, as it only seems to happen in Firefox for windows, and we cannot authorize external people to edit our sites and see it in situ.

Proposed resolution

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

API changes

Data model changes

πŸ› Bug report
Status

Fixed

Version

2.1

Component

Bugs

Created by

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈUnited States R_H-L

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