[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 180742] New: VoiceOver in Safari does not distinguish between names and values in description lists.

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180742

            Bug ID: 180742
           Summary: VoiceOver in Safari does not distinguish between names
                    and values in description lists.
           Product: WebKit
           Version: Safari 9
          Hardware: Unspecified
                OS: Unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Accessibility
          Assignee: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
          Reporter: hartman.wiki at gmail.com
                CC: webkit-bug-importer at group.apple.com

Description lists are defined as name value groups, but currently 

Take for instance:
<dl>
  <dt> Authors
      <dd> John
     <dd> Luke
  <dt> Editor
     <dd> Frank
</dl>

VoiceOver will currently read this as:
Description list of 5 items
 Author, 1 of 5
 John, 2 of 5
 Luke, 3 of 5
 Editor, 4 of 5
 Frank, 5 of 5
End of list

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/grouping-content.html#the-dl-element
shows that it should be more like:

Description list of 2 items
 group Author
   John
   Luke
 group Editor 
   Frank
End of list

Currently there is no difference between dt/term/name and dd/description/value, while semantically that difference is clearly indicated, with the <dt> often being in bold as well and/or visually offset.

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