QT's QWebView widget not accessible to screen readers

Question

I created this very simple QT Jambi application. It loads google. Based on the examples I found regarding QWebView, the program should run correctly.

package qtweb;

import com.trolltech.qt.core.QUrl;
import com.trolltech.qt.gui.QApplication;
import com.trolltech.qt.webkit.QWebView;

public class WebKit {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        QApplication.initialize(args);
        QWebView br = new QWebView();
        br.setWindowTitle("web test");
        br.setAccessibleDescription("test description");
        br.setAccessibleName("test name");
        br.load(new QUrl("http://www.google.com"));
        br.show();
        QApplication.execStatic();
    }

}

According to http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/accessible.html

Either use standard widgets/controls which support ATs out of the box, or make sure that your custom widgets and controls support accessibility properly.

Since QT Jambi is just a java rapper to c++'s QT, I think this should also apply to QT Jambi. Unfortunately, when I ran my project, my screen readers (JAWS and NVDA) does not read anything aside from the title and AccesibleName. How can I make the contents of QWebView accessible to screen readers?

Screenreaders will be working with the HTML in the browser. Can you post what QT Jambi is generating so we can see the end result? — stringy, Sep 05 '16 at 13:13

QT's QWebView widget not accessible to screen readers

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