RFR: 8361283: [Accessibility, macOS, VoiceOver] VoiceOver announced Tab items of JTabbedPane as RadioButton on macOS [v2]

[Artem Semenov]

On Mon, 7 Jul 2025 06:49:12 GMT, Abhishek Kumar <abhiscxk at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Do it where it makes sense as part of the tab button implementation, rather than adding workarounds to the general implementation.
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>> Check the [super accessibilityRoleDescription] and if it returns nil, return your implementation.
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>> Check the [super accessibilityRoleDescription] and if it returns nil, return your implementation.
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> As I mentioned earlier in the description, `accessibility role description is fetched in accessibilityRoleDescription API in CommonComponentAccessiblity.m file, the sub-role passed as a parameter is nil, returned value is RadioButton`, [super accessibilityRoleDescription] will not return `nil`.
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> Anyways, I don't see this method getting invoked in TabButtonAccessibility by a11y client.

Try to debug and investigate why [TabbuttonAccessibility accessibilityRoleDescription] is not being called. If you have already attempted to override it with the changes you need.

The logic of creating tabs in TabGroupAccessibility indicates that such an override should work.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26096#discussion_r2189231475