Keegan, can you say a little more about how you’re testing this? Your screenshot looks like a desktop browser. Are you using macOS VoiceOver? (In what browser?)
macOS VoiceOver is a very different product from iOS VoiceOver. It’s common for there to bugs in macOS VoiceOver that don’t appear in iOS VoiceOver, and vice versa. (For various reasons, iOS VoiceOver is vastly more popular among visually impaired users than macOS VoiceOver.)
When I just attempted to test your post https://meta.discourse.org/t/spoiler-issues-with-voiceover/257450/8?u=dfabulich on iOS Safari 16.3.1, this is what I saw:
Here’s a transcript:
- The video starts with focus on the video. Then I swipe right to focus the blurred spoiler text.
- VoiceOver announces: “Show hidden content. Button. Collapsed. Double tap to expand.”
- I double-tap. The spoiler text is visually unblurred.
- VoiceOver announces: “Hide content. Expanded. Hide content.” I claim that this is a bug in Discourse. It should have read the text content aloud, as it did in keegan’s video.
- I swipe right, navigating to the next UI control.
- VoiceOver announces: “One person liked this post. Click to view. Toggle button.”
- I swipe left, navigating back to the unblurred spoiler text.
- VoiceOver announces: “Hide content. Button. Expanded. Double tap to collapse.”
- I then swipe right and left again just to double check that the same behavior occurs, and it does.
We have reports from users on the intfiction.org forum that the spoiler blur is busted in NVDA as well, which might be worth testing on your end.