.NET MAUI CollectionView item's DataTemplate's root container's SemanticProperties.Hint doesn't get set on the item

[gbarkerz]

Description

If a SemanticProperties.Description is set on the root container in a CollectionView item's DataTemplate, then that string gets set as the UIA Name property for the UIA element representing that container, and also the UIA Name on the CollectionView item itself. If a SemanticProperties.Hint is set on the same container, then that string is set as the UIA HelpText property on the UIA element representing the container, but not on the CollectionView item.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Build and run the app at https://github.com/gbarkerz/MauiAppTest2.
2. Point the Accessibility Insights for Windows tool at one of the one of the group elements beneath one of the items in the CollectionView. Note that the group element has a Name of "Wallace" and a HelpText of "Gromit".
3. Point the Accessibility Insights for Windows tool at item which is the parent of the group element just inspected. Note that the item has a Name of "Wallace".

Result: The item has no HelpText property.
Expected. The child group element's HelpText property should get propagated up to be the HelpText of the item.

Link to public reproduction project repository

https://github.com/gbarkerz/MauiAppTest2

Version with bug

7.0 (current)

Last version that worked well

6.0.312

Affected platforms

Windows

Affected platform versions

net7.0-windows10.0.19041.0

Did you find any workaround?

No response

Relevant log output

No response

[gbarkerz]

Here's a screenshot of Accessibility Insights reporting that the CollectionView item has no HelpText property.

[ghost]

We've moved this issue to the Backlog milestone. This means that it is not going to be worked on for the coming release. We will reassess the backlog following the current release and consider this item at that time. To learn more about our issue management process and to have better expectation regarding different types of issues you can read our Triage Process.

[rachelkang]

Validated and confirming this is an issue in both .NET 7 and .NET 6

[homeyf]

Verified this issue with Visual Studio Enterprise 17.7.0 Preview 3.0(net8). Can repro on windows platform with sample project.
https://github.com/gbarkerz/MauiAppTest2