[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 201581] New: AX: HTML menu element should map to role=list

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201581

            Bug ID: 201581
           Summary: AX: HTML menu element should map to role=list
           Product: WebKit
           Version: Safari 12
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Accessibility
          Assignee: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
          Reporter: scottaohara at yahoo.com
                CC: webkit-bug-importer at group.apple.com

Created attachment 378291

  --> https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=378291&action=review

test case of menu pattern and ul pattern to verify menus are not exposed the same as unordered lists

Steps to reproduce:

- Open the provided reduced test case.
- Check accessibility mappings to verify that menu is not mapped as a list, though it should be a semantic alternative to the UL element.
- Attempting to navigate to the menu or its child list items with a screen reader will either not work, or the screen reader will try to expose each list item as a separate single item list, depending on the browser and screen reader pairing used.


Actual results:

The menu is not exposed as a list and thus it and the list items within cannot be consistently navigated to, if at all, when navigating by lists or list items when using a screen reader with Firefox.


Expected results:

Per the HTML specification: "The menu element is simply a semantic alternative to ul..."

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/grouping-content.html#the-menu-element

Since the menu element should be semantically equal to a UL, and is expected to contain LI elements, it should map similarly to a UL element to allow assistive technologies to navigate to understand & navigate to the element and the contained list items.

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