Sometimes alerts are not announced when navigating in the editor with arrow keys

[meganrogge]

@rperez030, when I test the alerts in the editor - specifically for errors and warnings, sometimes the alerts are not read despite the call succeeding.

Note that you'll need to enable the audio cue to get the alert, will be fixed / tracked by #203211.

When this happens, the line content is read instead.

@aiday-mar has reported also having the opposite experience - that is, when navigating an editor with arrow keys, she will hear the alert, for example "error, breakpoint" and not the line content.

Have you experienced these issues?

[meganrogge]

I'm wondering if this is not an issue because you are using a braille device.

[rperez030]

It is really an issue in macOS. The reason is likely because alerts cause voiceover to remove the content of the speaking queue as a way to give alerts the highest priority. These should probably be status messages instead of alerts. This shouldn't hit production as it is right now.

[meganrogge]

Makes sense, thanks. I will go with status instead.

[rperez030]

I'll test as soon as it gets merged.

[meganrogge]

I am testing and see the status message is similarly not announced after the first call (despite debugging showing that the status call does happen). It's still a better solution because we know it won't override the actual line content.

I recall status often doesn't work on macOS in other contexts too.

[meganrogge]

separating the issues #203113

[meganrogge]

it looks like we might need to do something hacky like this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58734798/aria-live-region-is-not-reading-out-updates-when-an-element-is-removed-on-chrome

@isidorn, did you encounter similar issues and did you consider doing this?

[rperez030]

I am testing and see the status message is similarly not announced after the first call (despite debugging showing that the status call does happen). >

That is interesting. To me it is reading consistently with the audio cue, just overriding the readout of the actual content due to the way in which alerts are handled. In other words, I hear the audio cue and get the alert right after consistently. I'm running macOS sonoma.

[meganrogge]

@rperez030, that's great insight. Perhaps this is once again just an issue with my VoiceOver configuration then. Could you pls test in insider's tomorrow, where the status will occur instead of alert?

[isidorn]

@meganrogge I was not encountering issues like this in the past, so I do not have much good context. Sorry

[meganrogge]

Closing as an issue with my setup until I'm told otherwise via @rperez030