Accessibility of confirm dialog in chrome

Question

The confirmation dialogues in chrome are not accessible to JAWS screenreader (Version 18.0.2945). I experienced that with a simple onbeforeUnload dialog as well as with a javascript confirm dialog. The text in the dialog will not be read. Did anyone experience similar problems or knows an answer?

Oestrone

It might be a JAWS issue, and it might be not. Could you please provide some code for us to investigate? Thanks! – Miguelinamiguelita

Here is the code i use to set the beforeUnload behaviour: $(function() { $('.erfassung :input').on('change', function() { setConfirmUnload(true); }); // Turn off the unload message whenever a form get submitted properly. $('form.erfassung').on('submit', function() { setConfirmUnload(false); }); }); function setConfirmUnload(on) { var message = "You have unsaved data. Are you sure to leave the page?"; window.onbeforeunload = (on) ? function() { return message; } : null; } – Oestrone

And second for a confirm box i set a simple onclick-event: <h:commandButton value="Löschen" styleClass="button small" style="float: right; width: auto;" onclick="if (!confirm('Wollen Sie die Person(en) wirklich löschen?')) return false;" accesskey="ö" title="... – Oestrone

Sorry for the horrible formatting. – Oestrone

entschuldigung, ich habe vom ersten Beispiel nicht verstanden, ob Sie immer ein gewöhnliches confirm benutzen? Jedenfalls, werde ich es jetzt im Chrome mit JAWS prüfen :) – Miguelinamiguelita

Im ersten Beispiel ist es kein gewöhnliches confirm sondern die Aktivierung einer Bestätigung onbeforeunload. Aber das gewöhnliche confirm geht ebenfalls nicht... Danke schonmal fürs Prüfen! – Oestrone

Answer 1

As of today, 18/09/2017, this is a jaws issue. The code works on all other major browsers. There is no solution at present.

Just for your information, alert and prompt have the same problem. HTTP basic authentication dialogs aren't usable either. Everything works with NVDA.

Freedom scientific, please, fix this issue.

Interpret