fix(material/radio): hide supporting elements from assistive technology#32816
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Add `aria-hidden="true"` to the touch target, background, and ripple elements inside mat-radio-button. These are purely visual/interaction elements that VoiceOver on macOS incorrectly reads as "group", creating unnecessary navigation stops for screen reader users. Closes angular#32797
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What kind of change does this PR introduce?
Bug fix (accessibility).
What is the current behavior?
VoiceOver on macOS reads the decorative
divelements insidemat-radio-button(touch target, radio circle background, and ripple container) as "group", creating unnecessary navigation stops when using a screen reader to navigate through a radio group. Each radio button results in multiple "group" announcements instead of just the expected radio button label and state.Closes #32797
What is the new behavior?
The three supporting visual elements inside
mat-radio-buttonnow havearia-hidden="true":.mat-mdc-radio-touch-target-- expanded hit area for touch interaction.mdc-radio__background-- visual radio circle (outer/inner circles).mat-radio-ripple-- ripple effect containerThis hides them from the accessibility tree so screen readers only announce the semantically meaningful
<input type="radio">and<label>elements, resulting in one clean navigation stop per radio button.Additional context
This follows the same pattern used by
mat-checkbox, which marks its decorative SVG checkmark witharia-hidden="true"(seecheckbox.htmlline 33 andcheckbox.spec.tsline 61-64).A unit test has been added to verify all three elements have the
aria-hidden="true"attribute.Files changed:
src/material/radio/radio.html-- Addedaria-hidden="true"to 3 decorative elementssrc/material/radio/radio.spec.ts-- Added test verifying aria-hidden attributes