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Some accessibilityRole/role have no effect on both iOS and Android #50123

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Description

Some values for the props accessibilityRole and role have no effect on both iOS and Android platforms.
Meaning the screenreader doesn't read the role after the accessibilityLabel.

accessibilityRole

With no effect

On iOS
[
  'alert', 'combobox', 'menu', 'menubar', 'menuitem', 'radio', 'radiogroup', 'scrollbar', 'spinbutton', 'tab',
  'tabbar', 'tablist', 'timer', 'list', 'toolbar',
]
On Android
[
  'tabbar', // Throws error on Android
  'search', 'keyboardkey',
]

With questionable effect

On iOS
[
  'togglebutton', // Gets the Traits value: `Button`, while the 'switch` role gets 2 traits `Button` and `Toggle`. Shouldn't the role togglebutton have the same traits as the 'switch' role?
]

role

With no effect

On iOS
[
  'alert', 'alertdialog', 'application', 'article', 'banner', 'cell', 'columnheader','combobox', 'complementary',
  'contentinfo', 'definition', 'dialog', 'directory', 'document', 'feed', 'figure', 'form', 'grid', 'group',
  'list', 'listitem', 'log', 'main', 'marquee', 'math', 'menu', 'menubar', 'menuitem', 'meter', 'navigation',
  'none', 'note', 'option', 'presentation', 'radiogroup', 'region', 'row', 'rowgroup', 'rowheader', 'scrollbar',
  'searchbox', 'separator', 'slider', 'spinbutton', 'status', 'tab', 'table', 'tablist', 'tabpanel', 'term', 'timer',
  'toolbar', 'tooltip', 'tree', 'treegrid', 'treeitem',
]
On Android
[
  'alertdialog', 'application', 'article', 'banner', 'cell', 'columnheader', 'complementary', 'contentinfo', 'definition', 'dialog',
  'directory', 'document', 'feed', 'figure', 'form', 'group', 'listitem', 'log', 'main', 'marquee', 'math', 'meter', 'navigation',
  'note', 'option', 'presentation', 'region', 'row', 'rowgroup', 'rowheader', 'searchbox', 'separator', 'status', 'table', 'tablist',
  'tabpanel', 'term', 'tooltip', 'tree', 'treegrid', 'treeitem',
]

With questionable effect

On iOS
[
  'radio', // Not questionable, but if the same value is provided on the `accessibilityRole` prop, no effect is taken.
]

Steps to reproduce

  1. Run application either on ios or android yarn ios or yarn android
  2. Enable VoiceOver or TalkBack
  3. Inspect elements which indicates the chosen platform in red
  4. The screen reader will reader only the accessibilityLabel "Item" although it have a role

React Native Version

0.78.0

Affected Platforms

Runtime - Android, Runtime - iOS

Output of npx @react-native-community/cli info

System:
  OS: macOS 15.2
  CPU: (12) arm64 Apple M3 Pro
  Memory: 71.34 MB / 18.00 GB
  Shell:
    version: "5.9"
    path: /bin/zsh
Binaries:
  Node:
    version: 22.8.0
    path: /opt/homebrew/bin/node
  Yarn: Not Found
  npm:
    version: 10.8.2
    path: /opt/homebrew/bin/npm
  Watchman:
    version: 2024.09.09.00
    path: /opt/homebrew/bin/watchman
Managers:
  CocoaPods:
    version: 1.15.2
    path: /opt/homebrew/bin/pod
SDKs:
  iOS SDK:
    Platforms:
      - DriverKit 24.0
      - iOS 18.0
      - macOS 15.0
      - tvOS 18.0
      - visionOS 2.0
      - watchOS 11.0
  Android SDK: Not Found
IDEs:
  Android Studio: 2024.1 AI-241.18034.62.2412.12266719
  Xcode:
    version: 16.0/16A242d
    path: /usr/bin/xcodebuild
Languages:
  Java:
    version: 17.0.12
    path: /usr/bin/javac
  Ruby:
    version: 2.6.10
    path: /usr/bin/ruby
npmPackages:
  "@react-native-community/cli":
    installed: 15.0.1
    wanted: 15.0.1
  react:
    installed: 19.0.0
    wanted: 19.0.0
  react-native:
    installed: 0.78.0
    wanted: 0.78.0
  react-native-macos: Not Found
npmGlobalPackages:
  "*react-native*": Not Found
Android:
  hermesEnabled: true
  newArchEnabled: true
iOS:
  hermesEnabled: true
  newArchEnabled: true

Stacktrace or Logs

N/A

Reproducer

https://github.com/JoaoMosmann/ReactNativeVoiceOverRolesWithNoEffectReproducer-

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Android Example:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6ca4e808-c571-4758-a484-4d271810f33a

iOS Example:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a5f8b125-eb0e-4420-bbfa-8f1afb5fd901

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