VoiceOver on iOS 14 Supports Description Lists | Adrian Roselli
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VoiceOver on iOS 14 Supports Description Lists
September 20, 2020; 2 Comments
The <dl> has existed since HTML+, or 1993, when it was called definition list. VoiceOver on iOS has existed since 2009, when it was introduced with the iPhone 3GS.
Neither VoiceOver on iOS nor iPadOS had support for this core feature of HTML that was in existence for 16 years when VoiceOver was released — until now with the release of iOS / iPadOS version 14.
Frustrated at Apple’s failure to accessibly implement such a basic feature of HTML, a few months ago I made a test to see if I could use some combination of CSS and/or ARIA (1.1 and the draft 1.2) to get VoiceOver to recognize a <dl> as anything other than one long block of run-on text. I have embedded that test as well:
See the Pen
Description Lists for VO/iOS by Adrian Roselli (@aardrian)
on CodePen.
That pen explains each technique I tried, along with the support for each in iOS 12 through 14. It has historically not been good. [...]
