RFR: 8361283: [Accessibility, macOS, VoiceOver] VoiceOver announced Tab items of JTabbedPane as RadioButton on macOS [v2]
Andrey Turbanov
aturbanov at openjdk.org
Fri Jul 4 12:20:40 UTC 2025
On Wed, 2 Jul 2025 15:37:30 GMT, Abhishek Kumar <abhiscxk at openjdk.org> wrote:
>> **Issue** : VO doesn't announce Tab items of a JTabbedPane as RadioButton which is wrong.
>>
>> **Analysis** : That is due to the role mapping of tab items as `NSAccessibilityRadioButtonRole` in `JavaAccessibilityUtilities.m` file. Since the accessibility role description is fetched in `accessibilityRoleDescription` API if `CommonComponentAccessiblity.m` file, the sub-role passed as a parameter is `nil`, returned value is RadioButton..
>>
>> **Proposed Fix** : Fix is to get the correct accessibility role description from Appkit, we should pass `NSAccessibilityTabButtonSubrole` in the subrole parameter and that returns the accessibility role as `Tab` and is announced correctly by VO.
>>
>> **Testing** : Manual test case has been added to verify the fix.
>
> Abhishek Kumar has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
>
> Add test
test/jdk/javax/accessibility/JTabbedPane/AccessibleTabbedPaneRoleTest.java line 74:
> 72: tabPane.setTabLayoutPolicy(JTabbedPane.SCROLL_TAB_LAYOUT);
> 73: tabPane.setTabPlacement(JTabbedPane.TOP);
> 74: for( int i = 0; i < NUM_TABS; ++i) {
Suggestion:
for (int i = 0; i < NUM_TABS; ++i) {
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26096#discussion_r2185219013
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