Add script for aria figure to input gestures and give the user the possibility to turn off reporing of this role in document formating settings

[Adriani90]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

See examples for Aria figure here
https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/groups/#multiple-images-conveying-a-single-piece-of-information

I see more and more websites using this aria role to group information. The problem is that NVDA alway announce when entering and leaving this container. While this might be useful in some circumstances, users will most probably prefer to decide themselves if this should be reported or not while navigating in browse mode.

Describe the solution you'd like

The best solution is to maintain consistency here. I.e. as it is in case of groupings, there should be a script for figures in input gestures. And the users should be able to turn off reporting in document formating settings.

Describe alternatives you've considered

None

Additional context

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[Adriani90]

this should also be possible for captions, not only figures.

[fisher729]

Hi.

We're going to have the option to turn off graphics in NVDA 2020.3, why not just add an option to toggle the reporting of figures and captions?

[josephsl]

Hi, to add context to this: there was a discussion on NVDA users list about excessive verbiage of “figure/out of figure”. Thanks. From: fisher729 <notifications@github.com> Sent: Friday, August 7, 2020 11:25 AM To: nvaccess/nvda <nvda@noreply.github.com> Cc: Subscribed <subscribed@noreply.github.com> Subject: Re: [nvaccess/nvda] Add script for aria figure to input gestures and give the user the possibility to turn off reporing of this role in document formating settings (#10826) Hi. We're going to have the option to turn off graphics in NVDA 2020.3, why not just add an option to toggle the reporting of figures and captions? — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#10826 (comment)> , or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AB4AXEF3L3E7UGM5VRYR7U3R7RBIJANCNFSM4K64OZLQ> .

[LeonarddeR]

I think it makes sense to let graphics reporting control figures as well. As for captions, I'd add a new entry to the document information section in document formatting settings.

I'll mark this good for new dev, as it is pretty easy to implement this.

[fisher729]

Hi.

Any update on this? I do acknowledge that figure reporting might be useful, but for most users, it's pretty irrelevant. I'd say it requires a separate checkbox in document formatting settings, possibly joined with captions.

[burakyuksek]

I agree on this being added. It's prittey unnecessary for me in most cases.

[rkingett]

If/when this gets added, I'd like the ability to include the, caption, announcement and this should be in the document formatting setting, not the browse mode setting.