Carbon: AVT 3 - Tile Selectable: VoiceOver does not announce when a selectable tile is checked or unchecked

[snidersd]

Environment

macOS Mojave version 10.14.2
Chrome version 72.0.3626.96 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Detailed Description

With VoiceOver enabled tab to the selectable tile that is checked (selectable tile 2)

Expected Result

VoiceOver announces when the selectable tile is checked and unchecked.

Note: Based on the selectable tiles type="radio" the selectable component should follow the ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1 design pattern for radio group which requires aria-checked attribute set on the selectable tiles.

[dakahn]

Testing on latest macOS and chrome here's what I have:

VO on selected tile:

VO when another tile is selected:

Maybe specifically we need "checked" and "unchecked" here _according to the letter of the law_, but since the component is described by VO as a "selectable tile" describing it as "selected" seems to make more sense.

[snidersd]

@dakahn The issue is not that about the word "selected" vs "checked". When I test with VO the announcement of the selected state is inconsistent. For example, If I tab to the default tile (2) VO announces that it is selected... as in your screenshot. If I then tab to the next tile and hit the Enter key to select it, VO announces "You are currently on a group. To interact with items in this group press Control-Option-Shift-Down Arrow."

In order to hear VO announce the selected state, I have to tab back to the selected radio button. In the ARIA Authoring practices example, the state is announced as soon as the selection is made.

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We've marked this issue as stale because there hasn't been any activity for a couple of weeks. If there's no further activity on this issue in the next three days then we'll close it. You can keep the conversation going with just a short comment. Thanks for your contributions.

[snidersd]

@dakahn This issue needs to be labeled A11y and React.

[stale[bot]]

We've marked this issue as stale because there hasn't been any activity for a couple of weeks. If there's no further activity on this issue in the next three days then we'll close it. You can keep the conversation going with just a short comment. Thanks for your contributions.

[snidersd]

@dakahn Retested and this is still an issue.

[abbeyhrt]

Hi @snidersd! I am not able to reproduce this problem with VO on Safari, would you be able to check for me to see if this is still a problem you're encountering?

[snidersd]

@abbeyhrt Retested and I no longer see the issue.

[abbeyhrt]

Okay great, thanks for looking into it! I'm going to close this issue since it has been addressed 👍