[Accessibility] Toast notifications not announced by screen readers

[patrickhlauke]

Steps To Reproduce

1. Run a screen reader
2. Perform an action that triggers a toast notification (e.g. trying to unlock a vault with the wrong password)

Expected Result

Toast notification should be announced by the screen reader (using a live region notification).

Actual Result

Toast notification is not announced at all by screen readers.

Screenshots or Videos

bitwarden-toast-notification-not-announced-sr.mp4

Video: Chrome/NVDA, trying to unlock a vault with an empty password - a toast error notification is shown, but NVDA remains fully silent.

Additional Context

Possibly still related to #3487

I also filed an issue ages ago upstream scttcper/ngx-toastr#957 but not sure if anything came from that.

This may be interesting/relevant: https://tetralogical.com/blog/2024/05/01/why-are-my-live-regions-not-working/

Operating System

Windows

Operating System Version

11

Web Browser

Chrome

Browser Version

131.0.6778.205 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Build Version

2024.12.2

Issue Tracking Info

• I understand that work is tracked outside of Github. A PR will be linked to this issue should one be opened to address it, but Bitwarden doesn't use fields like "assigned", "milestone", or "project" to track progress.

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ID: PM-16294

[SergeantConfused]

Hello @patrickhlauke,

Thank you for your report. I have flagged this to the Engineering department; please feel free to post additional information, such as screenshots or a screen video recordings, if you wish.

Thank you again,