Accessibility: Narrator: When focus is on dropdown, its role is not announced

[gaurav42]

Bug Report

• Browser and OS versions: Windows 10 RS3
• Microsoft Alias: gdesh

Priorities and help requested (not applicable if asking question):

Are you willing to submit a PR to fix? (Yes, No)
No

Requested priority: (Blocking, High, Normal, Low)
Normal

Products/sites affected: (if applicable)
VS marketplace

Describe the issue:

When narrator is enabled and keyboard focus is on dropdown, it is not announcing the role of the dropdown control

Actual behavior:

Narrator doesn't announce role as 'dropdown' or 'listbox'

Expected behavior:

Narrator should announce role as 'dropdown' or 'listbox'

[betrue-final-final]

@michaelangotti and @lynamemi this is confirmed. I thought there was a big kerfuffle about what role this should be from before, so it's odd that it doesn't have one announced. Shouldn't this naturally have a role as semantic html?

[aditima]

Just checked that the dropdown root div has a role='listbox' on it. Possibly a narrator bug?

[betrue-final-final]

We should check in with them. Do you have a contact @aditima ?

[cliffkoh]

Closing in favor of #5354.