Show a listbox button's selected option as its value, not in its name by giordano-lucas · Pull Request #1355 · nottelabs/notte

giordano-lucas · 2026-10-26T15:56:25Z

What

The collapsible dropdown listbox pattern labels its button by the visible label and by the button itself: aria-labelledby="label button", where the button's text is the selected option. The accessible name was then "Shipping speed Standard (5-7 days)", one string with no value. Asked "which speed is selected?", an agent answered "None".

A button with aria-haspopup="listbox" that is labelled by a label and by itself is now named by the label alone ("Shipping speed"). Its text goes to the element state as its value ("Standard (5-7 days)"), as the selected option of a <select> does. Buttons labelled only by themselves, and buttons that don't open a listbox, are named as before.

Example

<span id="speed-label">Shipping speed</span>
<button id="speed" aria-haspopup="listbox" aria-expanded="false" aria-labelledby="speed-label speed">Standard (5-7 days)</button>

observe() output, then the node's accessible_name and state. Before (main):

_[:]Shipping speed
B1[:]<button aria_expanded="false">Standard (5-7 days)</button>
B1: accessible_name='Shipping speed Standard (5-7 days)' state={'expanded': False}

After:

_[:]Shipping speed
B1[:]<button aria_expanded="false">Standard (5-7 days)</button>
B1: accessible_name='Shipping speed' state={'value': 'Standard (5-7 days)', 'expanded': False}

Tests

tests/browser/test_accessible_names.py: the listbox button's name is its label and its value is the option. A listbox button labelled by itself alone, and an ordinary self-labelled button, keep their names. Fails on main.
No golden or characterization snapshot changes. Full offline suite passed before the last rebase on main; on this head, tests/browser, the golden and characterization suites, pre-commit and basedpyright pass.

Bench

The bench ran before the last rebase, on a local build of feat-session-act with the coverage tasks and all the observe fixes of this series merged (one build; each task below exercises one fix). Base is the same build without the fixes. Jev, 2 runs each, base and head back to back, concurrency 2, load average 28–40 on a shared machine.

task / probe	base	head
probe `f-webcomp-speed` ("Which shipping speed is selected?")	0/2 (answered None)	2/2

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Accessibility
- Listbox buttons expose their displayed selection as live state, while their accessible names exclude the selected value.
- Selection text excludes hidden content and is read within defined size limits; values may be truncated, with a digest available for change detection.
Documentation
- ElementState reference now describes slider and spin-button values, mixed toggle-button state, and sort state for sorted column headers and their controls.

coderabbitai · 2026-10-26T15:56:36Z

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Qualifying listbox buttons now expose their displayed selection as a live state value, separate from their accessible name. The DOM reader traverses rendered content, including slots, and applies node and text limits. It marks values as truncated and provides a digest when the display limit or a traversal limit is reached. Documentation and browser tests cover the value behavior, accessible-name handling, and related element-state fields.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: Low · up to e77d4

The current value-reading behavior remains bounded, but a future change could disable part of its regression test unnoticed. This is mergeable with a small test fix or follow-up.

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Confidence Score: 5/5

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Summary

Listbox buttons now expose their selected option in state.value and keep the label in accessible_name.

Listbox buttons show their selected text as a separate value.

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Review comments at @packages/notte-browser/src/notte_browser/js/buildDomNode.js:
- Around line 332-334: Update the value-button rule near the aria-labelledby ID
check to require native or semantic button identity before applying it. Keep the
existing listbox, ID, and label-reference checks, and ensure links retain their
existing accessible name.
- Line 253: Update the listbox-button value path in buildDomNode.js to call
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Fixed SVG selection loss in ad0fb0d. The dedicated value reader includes visible SVG text/tspan content and excludes title/desc/defs/metadata. Both SVG regressions failed before; 50 accessibility, element-state, and clobbering browser tests passed after. Pinned commit hooks (including typing), JavaScript syntax, and diff checks passed. Full-selection digests are preserved. The separate fixed-traversal-budget security thread remains open pending the owner's contract decision. Current-head CI and final reviews remain pending.

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The collapsible listbox pattern labels its button by the label and by the button itself, whose text is the selected option, so the name read "Shipping speed Standard (5-7 days)". Such a button is now named by its label, and its text is its value in the element state. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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444-454: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Assert that the nodeTypeOf source anchor exists before relying on .replace.

If the anchor changes, the second replacement silently fails. The built-in MAX_LISTBOX_VALUE_NODES cap still limits the current traversal, but the probe no longer checks its separate 2,048-call nodeTypeOf budget. The remaining assertions can still pass.
Suggested fix
+    node_type_anchor = 'const nodeTypeOf = nativeGetter(Node.prototype, "nodeType");'
+    assert node_type_anchor in DOM_TREE_JS, "node-work budget probe anchor not found"
     probe = DOM_TREE_JS.replace(
         "const rootId = buildDomTree(BODY);",
         """
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     ).replace(
-        'const nodeTypeOf = nativeGetter(Node.prototype, "nodeType");',
+        node_type_anchor,
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Read listbox selections through slots and exclude hidden content

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fix(browser): retain listbox selections on input buttons

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fix(browser): stream listbox selections without descendant names

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Assert the listbox node-budget probe source anchor exists #1373

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