NVDA calls out BLANK when navigating through the data table cells by keyboard

edwinkoh

Hi, we are evaluating this from accessibility perspective. we tested keyboard navigation and found that when you move from cell to cell, the screen reader calls out the first cell but subsequent cells are called out as BLANK. using mouse, hover over calls out the content of a cell but not using keyboard navigation
how do you make a screen reader read the content of a cell when using keyboard navigation?
thanks,
edwin

Link to test case: https://datatables.net/extensions/keytable/examples/initialisation/simple.html
Debugger code (debug.datatables.net):
Error messages shown: no error messages,
Description of problem: when you navigate through the dat atable cells by keyboard, NVDA will call out BLANK and not the cell contents

edwinkoh

we also tried adding the folowing to each cell but the screen reader still reads BLANK:
aria-label
aria-role
aria-describedby

https://jsfiddle.net/koh_edwin/yeabw1jg/13/

allan

Hi,

Thanks for posting this. The KeyTable "focus" isn't a true focus, so I'm not too surprised by this - it is just a class with a bit of CSS.

I hadn't realised that NVDA was Windows online - I'm using a Linux machine at the moment, so will take a look into this later on and see if I can improve things a bit.

Allan

edwinkoh

thanks for the response Allan. looking forward to a favourable outcome.
edwin