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<body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:jesse.r.beach@gmail.com" title="Jesse Beach <jesse.r.beach@gmail.com>"> <span class="fn">Jesse Beach</span></a>
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from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:jesse.r.beach@gmail.com" title="Jesse Beach <jesse.r.beach@gmail.com>"> <span class="fn">Jesse Beach</span></a>
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<pre>We are running up against this issue as well at Facebook. Our top-level search bar experience is hampered on OSX because of this issue. I've put together a codepen that can be tested on OSX with VoiceOver. Note that the items targeted by the aria-activedescendant attribute on the combobox input are not announced by VoiceOver.
<a href="http://codepen.io/jessebeach/pen/OWBJRy">http://codepen.io/jessebeach/pen/OWBJRy</a>
I tested this behavior with JAWS 16 on Windows using Chrome and the example codepen behaved as expected -- the items targeted by aria-activedescendant are announced when the id value is changed in the attribute.
This gap is functionality for Safari and Chrome on OSX is a serious impediment for low vision and blind web users.</pre>
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