GitHub PR reviews not accessible with VoiceOver / macOS

[dspengler99]

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Hello dear GitHub-Team,

I recently noticed that the Files-view in a Pull Request is not fully accessible with the screen reader VoiceOver on macOS / Safari. If you navigate to the changes in a file (e.g. by pressing VO + t to get to the corresponding tables) VoiceOver won't read out full lines in the Diff-Editor when the code has syntax highlighting. If you for example have C# code to review it always just reads the first word of the actual line.

This makes it impossible for macOS / Safari devs using a screen reader to review PRs. I didn't try out other browsers. If I tried other browsers I will make a followup comment to this discussion.

Thanks for your time and afforts to improve GitHub so the platform is accessible to everyone regardless of disabilities.

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[dspengler99]

Thanks for your quick answer. I investigated the issue using Chrome on macOS and there the PR review with VoiceOver on macOS seems fine. So it is defnitily only an issue occuring in combination with the Safari browser.