Chrome M88 Accessibility Engineering Release Notes
Kara Booker
Highlights
Launched a new ChromeVox tutorial engine featuring an interactive tutorial for first-time users. (Change 2522312, Bug 1075752, Bug 1147169, Bug 1145059)
Launched keyboard panning for magnifier making magnifier keyboard accessible. (Change 2503568)
All platforms
Added a new doc-page header and doc-page footer roles from DPUB-ARIA 1.1. (Change 2448689, Bug 1134999)
Performance improvements for web pages that make many changes within a short period of time. (Change 2446089, Bug 1107988)
Fixed an invalidation issue preventing elements with a mouse button listener from being exposed to ATs under certain conditions. (Change 2485626, Bug 1135774)
Fixed a bug where after updating the content of complex buttons might not notify ATs, causing the wrong accessible name to be announced. (Change 2296564, Bug 1105262, Bug 1105262)
Made the extensions menu keyboard accessible when scrollable. (Change 2487904, Bug 1140632, Bug 1140632)
UIA screen readers, such as Narrator, can now announce all information in the Task Manager. (Change 2379091, Bug 1078623)
Chrome UI button accessibility focus behaviour improvements. (Change 2429539, Change 2499166, Change 2429435, Change 2510729,Bug 1001103)
Chrome UI links now are underlined on hover. (Change 2441938, Bug 1060186)
Fixed bugs where the save credit card bubble and the translate page bubble did not announce, and the password bubble was read twice. (Change 2431526, Bug 1119367, Bug 1119734, Bug 1132318)
Fixed a DCHECK crash relating to aria-owns relationships during kInAccessibility lifecycle phase. (Change 2516258, Bug 1143572, Bug 1139783)
Fixed crash in AXEventGenerator::PostprocessEvents. (Change 2459008)
Fixed screen reader focus rings when using cr-checkbox on the Clear History dialog. (Change 2466060, Bug 1101148)
Fixed a quick highlight focus issue in a WebUI menu selector. (Change 2505680, Bug 1143200)
Allow users to use arrow keys to navigate the menu on the chrome://settings page. (Change 2436706, Bug 1110405)
Chrome on Linux
Fixed announcements in the "Add Extension" bubble. (Change 2461276, Bug 1123107)
Orca: speak all the contents of the accounts & sync dialog. (Change 2489500, Bug 1078580, Bug 1098304)
Alert dialogs for "save card" and "translate page" are now announced. (Change 2460886, Bug 1119349, Bug 1119367, Bug 1119734)
Announce accounts and sync as a menu when opened. (Change 2494933, Bug 1098304)
Chrome on Mac
Fixed an issue where ARIA TreeGrid and Tree rows were not announced. (Change 2426569, Bug 1115267)
VoiceOver and Zoom now correctly highlight the text in a text field. (Change 2424090, Bug 1131376)
Chrome on Windows
A read-only omnibox is now accessible to ATs, just like an editable one. (Change 2490846)
Windows: Read the entire contents of accounts and sync menu. (Change 2517682, Bug 1078580)
Chrome OS
Fixed an issue where the Yue (Hong Kong) voice had no readable text label on the text-to-speech settings page (Change 2463600, Bug 1136353)
Improved labels and focus behavior for the multipaste menu (Change 2513526, Change 2523058, Bug 1145220, Bug 1146473)
Fixed window bounds in the lock screen to respect the magnifier, making all content accessible. (Change 2429743, Bug 1057062)
Added a toggle in Chrome OS Accessibility Settings for following keyboard focus in full-screen magnifier. (Change 2506771, Bug 1143793)
Improved contrast of Quick Settings "Connected" subtext. (Change 2485337, Bug 1134227)
Improvements to docked magnifier focus following. (Change 2465491, Bug 1131153)
Pressing F7 to toggle caret browsing no longer interferes with Japanese IMEs. (Change 2476906, Change 2472897, Bug 1138475)
ChromeVox
ChromeVox now announces elements with role=mark as “marked content”. (Change 2422252, Bug 1126131)
Refine voice switching announcements when switching within the same language. (Change 2466497, Bug 1098548)
Settings page nav links are now announced by ChromeVox on touch. (Change 2490785, Bug 1115704)
Updated slider labels to use consistent min/max language. (Change 2458446, Bug 1032258)
Workaround for dialogue box titles being vocalized twice. (Change 2480884, Bug 1007433)
Vocalize bluetooth peripherals subtext. (Change 2472585, Bug 1132975)
Within the YouTube Android app, ChromeVox can navigate to the clickable text to play each video. (Change 2450890)
Reinitialize tts engine on error. (Change 2496287)
App list search box improved interaction with ChromeVox. (Change 2476903, Bug 1111579)
ChromeVox will now wrap correctly when moving forward from the end of a page that has a text field at the end. (Change 2450209)
Fixed an issue in Smart Sticky mode where jumping to a text field by pressing 'e' would also cause sticky mode to turn off. (Change 2448053, Bug 1135118)
in Play Books, ChromeVox will keep reading even when encountering empty items. (Change 2448993)
Fixed an issue where ChromeVox might not enable Google Docs accessibility. (Change 2461717)
makes ChromeVox output aria radio buttons that don't receive focus. (Change 2468076, Bug 1136253)
Fixed an issue where ChromeVox would speak changes in a popup button when its value changes even if it didn't have focus. (Change 2468573)
When performing ChromeVox's read from here (Search+R) command, sticky mode won't toggle off/on when encountering text fields even with Smart Sticky mode on. (Change 2448061)
Makes the Task Manager (shift+escape) usable with ChromeVox. (Change 2462338)
OOBE
Fixed duplicate announcement of toggle buttons on the welcome screen. (Bug 1133742, Change 2435919)
Fixed unlabeled image (Bug 1133792) and video (Bug 1133737) by making them decorative and aria-hidden. (Change 2435919)
Chrome on Android
Aria-current nodes now explicitly announce their state. (Change 2493660, Bug 1093578)
Currently open tab now reads 'selected' when viewing a list of open tabs with a screen reader. (Change 2462296, Bug 1122171)
ListBoxes and ListBoxItems indices are now announced by Talkback. (Change 2462276, Bug 1101656)
Reopening a closed tab now announces the URL. (Change 2518102, Bug 526259)
Improved snackbar accessibility by allowing authors to specify an announcement string for undoing deleted actions. (Change 2431455, Bug 1090969)
Chrome on Linux
The Orca screen reader has a non-performant workaround for the lack of parent-changed notifications, namely to not use the AT-SPI parent caching feature. This fix will make it possible for Orca to use AT-SPI's parent caching and improve performance. (Change 2418652, Bug 1047496)
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