Regions with labelledBy are being announced incorrectly

[corinnaSchultz]

Summary

http://mars.dequecloud.com/demo/RegionExample.htm#ex1
See this example page.
Press R to navigate through the page regions

Expected result

JAWS should have said "This week's poll region"

Actual result

Jaws says "heading level 3 this week's poll this week's poll region"

Example

http://mars.dequecloud.com/demo/RegionExample.htm#ex1

Additional Information

The markup shows a div with a role="region", and a labelledBy referring to an h3 tag. I think the labelledBy is being confused and announcing the entire h3 tag instead of just the contents.

Also, when I use Ins+F3 to view a list of regions, the region labels say:

• This Week's Poll region (no "heading")
• Content information

JAWS version and build number

JAWS 2018.1807.8 ILM

Operating System and version

Seen on Windows 7 professional SP1, and Windows 10

Browser and version:

Firefox 56.0, and Firefox 61.0.2 (on win7);
Firefox 61 on Win10 (not sure of the minor version)

[jducrot]

@BenKeyFSI This is still happening in JAWS 2020.2004.66, see https://cdpn.io/TPG/debug/8bb3fad8b16b3fd9bed8265d50c7f804

[scottaohara]

is this actually an issue, or just how JAWS immediately navigates into landmark regions and begins announcing the first element within?

for instance, if the first element within the provided example were a paragraph with text "hello", JAWS would navigate to the region by use of the R key, announce "hello" as that is where the virtual cursor is placed, and then announce "This week's poll, region".

[jducrot]

@scottaohara I had the same question so I created the codepen included in my last comment. Have you checked it out?

[scottaohara]

just responding here to our offline convo, but yes. checked both the original example and new pen out.

[JAWS-test]

is this actually an issue, or just how JAWS immediately navigates into landmark regions and begins announcing the first element within?

I would say: It is a bug:

• The problem occurs in IE 11, Firefox and Chromium Edge. The problem does not occur in Chrome (surprisingly, Edge and Chrome are different - so far I don't know any other difference between the two browsers)
• The problem does not occur with all regions,
  1. not with the main or nav element, not with role=main or role=navigation,
  2. but with all other regions (like the footer, contentinfo, form, aside, banner, header, section, region)
• Not only heading of the region is output, if it is referred to by aria-labelledby. Instead, the first child element is always output (If the region contains only text, it will be output up to a certain length).
• The problem also occurs if the region is explicitly labeled (e.g. with aria-label)

[carmacleod]

Please also see nvaccess/nvda#7823 (comment) regarding redundant heading and region announcements. NVDA was reading the region label and then the (identical) heading label, but it isn't any more.