[Athen] iframes - are they accessible?

[Bossley, Peter A.]

It used to be that it was challenging for users of Voiceover on iOS to access the contents of iframes, but I haven’t done any testing on this in iOS 10 and one would imagine that was a bug that should have been eventually fixed.
If I remember next week I will put up a test page and give it a try.


From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Corrine Schoeb
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 4:37 PM
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Subject: [Athen] iframes - are they accessible?

We are debating about using iframes on a website and i thought I'd reach out to you all to see what you advice you might have.

My understanding from http://davidmacd.com/blog/is-title-attribute-on-iframe-required-by-wcag.html is that they may not be fully accessible, particularly for VoiceOver.

Then again http://webaim.org/techniques/frames/#iframe, along with http://accessibility.psu.edu/frames/#iframe, implies they might be as long as they have the title attribute.

Is adding the title enough to allow screen readers to access the content of an iframe?


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