JAWS should announce dialog titles when dialogs are opened

[Martin Kou]

It's currently difficult for screenreader users to determine which dialog they just opened in the editor. Ideally, JAWS should be able to announce the title of a newly opened dialog to the user.

[Martin Kou]

This is probably not possible within v3.0.

But a sensible way to implement this could be ARIA live regions ​http://test.cita.uiuc.edu/aria/live/live1.php

Live regions are only supported by Firefox 3 and IE8 at the moment.

[Frederico Caldeira Knabben]

Let's see if ARIA will help us for this.

[Garry Yao]

But a sensible way to implement this could be ARIA live regions...

ARIA could make this happen with the ​dialog role, while ​live region really isn't the appropriate description here IMO.

Depends on #4981.

[Garry Yao]

Note that not all browsers support the required ARIA role, see testcase ​here, we should instead find workarounds for other unsupported browsers.

[Frederico Caldeira Knabben]

Yes, the "dialog" role looks like the proper way for it. The accessibility plugin could then fix it to browser that don't support it, and maybe live regions could be used for that (not considering the proper description to give to it, but just to make ATs read it).

[Garry Yao]

Unfortunately JAWS doesn't work with IE's dialog role, trying an approach of using live region to force announce the dialog name.

[Garry Yao]

Note that this approach still have the following limitation with IE+JAWS:

1. JAWS always need a 'RefreshScreen' command to discover the dynamic created live region, which compromise the usability;
2. JAWS only speak out live region updates in VPC mode, this will be a trouble when focus go into certain types of dialog fields initally.
   

[Frederico Caldeira Knabben]

This one looks like hard to workaround (it's a browser limitation). The provided patch still doesn't provide a good solution for it. We need more investigation on it.

[Frederico Caldeira Knabben]

To note that this one is working well with CKEditor 3.2 in Firefox 3.5+.

[Frederico Caldeira Knabben]

Milestone CKEditor 3.x deleted

[Satya Minnekanti]

This issue was fixed.please close this defect