Accessibility: Editor Control Type Incorrect

[lumills]

Type of report

Bug

Provide detailed reproduction steps (if any)

1. Open a ckeditor 4 instance
2. Turn screen reader on (NVDA works)
3. Navigate into the Editor itself
4. Control type should be announced

Expected result

Control type should be meaningful to the user, such as 'Editor'

Actual result

Control type is not informational (I believe it is announced as 'group')

Other details

• Browser: Firefox
• CKEditor version: 4

[f1ames]

Hi @lumills,

does it only concerns NVDA or any other screen reader too?

[lumills]

Hi @f1ames ,

Bug and repro that I'm seeing appears to be NVDA specifically

[Comandeer]

I can confirm that editor is presented in unhelpful way. It seems to be connected with a convoluted way in which we label the editor – see #2445, #2499 and #1904.

[lumills]

Hey @f1ames and @Comandeer just wanted to check if there is any sort of eta here / confirmation that it is in the pipeline? Thanks in advance

[f1ames]

Hello @lumills, unfortunately we have no ETA for this one. We have briefly analyzed this issue and related ones (see #4052 (comment)). This requires a solid rework on our side regarding how editor markup is created and so it's really hard to estimate how and when we can have a working solution.

Still, we are keeping an eye on it as accessibility is very important for us so there is a chance there will be a fix in a foreseeable future.

[naksenzh]

Hello @f1ames, we are tracking this issue as a blocker for our accessibility bugs. We would appreciate a lot if you could share the updates, please.

[f1ames]

Hello @naksenzh, as mentioned in #4052 (comment), we have no clear ETA for this issue since it requires a significant amount of work in the editor itself. Any visible progress we will make on this issue (whatever positive or negative) will be posted here so you can track the status.

[naksenzh]

Hi @f1ames any update or progress on this by chance ?

[f1ames]

Hello @naksenzh, unfortunately due to other priorities we were unable to push this issue forward for now.

[CKEditorBot]

Closed in #5146