applet with figcaption Accessibility Checkpoint

Description

applet inside figure with figcaption element doesn’t work in some screen readers.

Help

• JAWS 2020.2008.24 with Chrome 86 on Windows 10 when Reading: Nothing voiced - caption visible on screen, but not read
• JAWS 2019.1912.1 with Chrome 79 on Windows 10 when Reading: Nothing voiced - caption visible on screen, but not read

Applicable standards

• JAWS 2020.2008.24
• JAWS 2019.1912.1

Change history

• 5.26 Jul 2017 Added.

This page describes a web site issue detected in HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.

Rule ID: AccCompat-applet-figcaption