[Bug]: 2 Accessibility Issues in the TagPickers about fluentui

[smhigley]

This is actually intentional -- the way the "not found" text is exposed to screen readers is as an item in the listbox, via aria-activedescendant (which is how everything in the popup is exposed, since focus remains in the input). Since the "not found" text is technically a listbox option, that's where the "list" and "1 of 1" information is coming from.

The placeholder isn't read because it's not shown -- that's also on purpose, and build into NVDA's own internal logic. This isn't a bug because it's also not shown to sighted users, and technically the placeholder is still programmatically exposed, so a screen reader could decide to expose it to the user if they felt it was relevant.

Important information and labels should never be put in placeholder text because it's not consistently exposed. If you're getting bugs around the placeholder text not being read at a given point, that's probably an indication that you have information in the placeholder that should be taken out and exposed as text somewhere else, where it won't be conditionally unavailable.

Hope that helps! I'm resolving this issue as by design, but feel free to re-open or reach out on Teams if you have any other questions!

[NewFuture]

Thanks @smhigley