ARIA Changes in iOS Safari? Why & how do I cope?

[David Ward]

Hey all,

I have a web-app that is also compiled and sold on the store using PhoneGap.

My App is a handy tool for the Blind and those who work with Braille & requires ARIA to pass the UI info to VoiceOver.

I use to use aria-labelledby as a critical component, to do this in my HTML tags.

 

On iOS 4.3.5 it worked fine

all the way I think up through 5.0 ...

But some where along the way

it broke. Because in iOS 6.1.4 it doesn't want to work (iphone5) or on 6.1.3 (ipad2).

However aria-describeby does now work; while previously it didn't..

 

Is there a break down some where with a changelog of how these ARIA features have been changed over time?

I used these properties on <li> tags maybe they got strict with the tags you can use. Any thoughts?

I might have to use a user-agent filter to adjust from 4.3 iOS to 5.0 + ... unless I can find something that just works myabe aria-label.

Thanks a bunch.

-David

[David Ward]

Still haven't found a change log.

[Victor Tsaran]

Hmmm, I haven't noticed that.

In general, however, we are left pretty much on our own. If you spot soemthing like you described, you should probably file a bug at bugreporter.apple.com.

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:33 AM, David Ward <mrg...@gmail.com> wrote:

Still haven't found a change log.

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[David Ward]

Ahhh, the bug report; Last time I filed a report there it seemed like a black hole; never got any response. But the problem is the newest iOS is fine. They broke it somewhere in iOS 6. I guess I should have paid more attention. I just wish there was a complete list of ARIA features supported by iOS... an a change log would be nice. Because what broke was aria-labelledby; then in iOS 7 they added it back and aria-describedby which wasn't in there before.

Thanks.

-David