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dd element (html)
Screen Reader support level: partial (4/44)
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About this feature
Description list - description element. See the dl element for more information.
Age of results
Results across all tests for this feature range from 4 years ago to 6 years ago. Detailed dates and version information can be found in associated tests.
Caution
Failing or partial results may be out of date. The oldest result is from 6 years ago. Consider running the associated tests and contributing results.
Expectations
Screen Reader support by expectation
| Expectation | JAWS | Narrator | NVDA | Orca | TalkBack | VoiceOver (iOS) | VoiceOver (macOS) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Edge | Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Firefox | Chrome | Safari | Safari | |
| MUST convey its role | none | none | none | none | none | none | none | none | partial | supported | none |
| MUST convey the position in set information | none | none | none | none | none | none | none | none | none | none | supported |
Expectation: convey its role
Rationale:
A user needs to be able to distinguish between a description term and its description.
Strength of this expectation for different types of assistive technologies:
- Screen Readers: MUST
- Voice Control: NA
Examples:
- A screen reader might announce an element as something like "<name>, <role>"
- A screen reader might imply the role by the presence of certain context roles
- Voice Control software might let the user say something like "click, <role>".
- Voice Control software might let the user say something like "show numbers", and interactive roles will be flagged with numbers.
| Test | JAWS | Narrator | NVDA | Orca | TalkBack | VoiceOver (iOS) | VoiceOver (macOS) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Edge | Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Firefox | Chrome | Safari | Safari | |
| HTML basic description list test | none | none | none | none | none | none | none | none | partial | supported | none |
| HTML description list with wrapped groups test | none | none | none | none | none | none | none | none | partial | supported | none |
Expectation: convey the position in set information
Rationale:
A user needs to where the position is in the list
Strength of this expectation for different types of assistive technologies:
- Screen Readers: MUST
- Voice Control: NA
Examples:
- A screen reader might convey the position of each item in the list as something like "x of y" where y is the number of items in the list.
- A screen reader might convey each term and description pair as a single item, or as separate items. For example, a screen reader might convey the size of a list of 3 pairs as either 3 or 6.
| Test | JAWS | Narrator | NVDA | Orca | TalkBack | VoiceOver (iOS) | VoiceOver (macOS) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Edge | Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Firefox | Chrome | Safari | Safari | |
| HTML basic description list test | none | none | none | none | none | none | none | none | none | none | supported |
| HTML description list with wrapped groups test | none | none | none | none | none | none | none | none | none | none | supported |
Related features
These are features that are usually used in combination with this feature.
dl element (description list) (html)
| Dragon | JAWS | Narrator | NVDA | Orca | TalkBack | Voice Access | VC iOS | VC MacOS | VoiceOver (iOS) | VoiceOver (macOS) | Speech Recognition | Windows Voice Access | Windows | Mac | iOS | Android Keyboard |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unknown | supported with 1 unknown result | no known support | partial (12/19) | no known support | no known support | unknown | unknown | unknown | partial (4/7) | supported with 1 unknown result | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown |
dt element (html)
| Dragon | JAWS | Narrator | NVDA | Orca | TalkBack | Voice Access | VC iOS | VC MacOS | VoiceOver (iOS) | VoiceOver (macOS) | Speech Recognition | Windows Voice Access | Windows | Mac | iOS | Android Keyboard |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unknown | no known support | no known support | partial (4/13) | no known support | no known support | unknown | unknown | unknown | partial (2/5) | partial (2/5) | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown |
Tests
| Test | Last update |
|---|---|
| HTML basic description list test | 2021-08-07 |
| HTML description list with wrapped groups test | 2021-08-07 |
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