NVDA focus is moving to the hidden elements and announcing unnecessary heading and grouping button information in browse mode.

[Kirank915]

Is it an issue related to Adaptive Cards?

No.

What is the PWD impact?

Users who rely on screen readers are getting impacted if NVDA focus is moving to the hidden elements and announcing unnecessary heading and grouping button information in browse mode.

What browsers and screen readers do this issue affect?

Others

Are there any code-based customization done to Web Chat?

No, I am using Web Chat without any customizations except "styleOptions".

What version of Web Chat are you using?

Latest production

Which area does this issue affect?

Others or unrelated

What is the public URL for the website?

https://airtuserexpdev.azurewebsites.net/Dashboard

How to reproduce the issue?

Step 1: Open the above URL in Edge Browser.
Step 2: AIRT Dashboard page will appear, Navigate to “Chat with Sage” chat box at the bottom of the page.
Step 3: Type question "What is accessibility process".
Step 4: Verify whether the screen reader NVDA is moving to hidden controls in browse mode or not.

What do you expect?

NVDA focus should not move to the hidden elements and should not announce unnecessary heading and grouping button information in browse mode.

What actually happened?

NVDA focus is moving to the hidden elements and announcing unnecessary heading and grouping button information in browse mode.
NVDA announces as
1.'grouping what is the accessibility process button collapsed.'
2.'heading level 4 what is the accessibility process'

Do you have any screenshots or recordings to repro the issue?

Did you find any DOM elements that might have caused the issue?

No response

MAS reference

https://aka.ms/MAS1.3.2

WCAG reference

https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/meaningful-sequence.html

WAI-ARIA reference

No response

Adaptive Card JSON

No response

Additional context

No response

[Kirank915]

Bug copied from MSD: BUG 11645726

[Kirank915]

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