MenuItem: screen reading issue (Accessibility) . labels of ‘Menu Item’ is not readable via screen reading software (JAWS12).

[hemang999]

Hi, Not reading menu-item-label by screen-reader users.(freedom scientific's JAWS v12)

I required to add

• waiRole='presentation'/ role='presentation'dojo v 1.3/1.4/1.5/1.6

into dijit/templates/MenuItem.html to make it work.

<td class="dijitReset dijitMenuItemLabel" colspan="2" dojoAttachPoint="containerNode" waiRole="presentation"></td>

Sincerely,

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Hemang Patel

[bill]

Thanks for the fix, but I want to confirm.... the template currently has role="menuitem", and it's been that way since at least version 1.5. (Note that waiRole is just being mapped to role.) According to ​http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles#role_definitions menuitem is a valid role (and presumably the right role, since this is a menu item).

Becky, any input?

[Becky Gibson]

Yes, the current role is correct. I recently looked into a similar issue and had no problems with JAWS 12 and Firefox 3.6.17 using the menu items and having them spoken. Can someone please provide an example and specifics of how to reproduce?

[bill]

Closing ticket since no response, presumably the current behavior is correct.