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Re: NVDA reads different title than what's in the html

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From: Joe Chidzik
Date: Apr 27, 2016 8:44AM

I'm sure there are some simpler ways of viewing the generated source, but I use the Firefox web developer toolbar which allows you to do just this via a context menu, or an amended tools menu in Firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/web-developer/



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> Subject: [WebAIM] NVDA reads different title than what's in the html
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> Hello all,
> A quick question. In Firefox/NVDA, I was getting the page title read correctly.
> Once I switched to using JQuery Mobile and added some data-role tags to my
> different sections, NVDA suddenly started saying the page title was
> "navigation". Yet, if I view the source, my normal title element is in place. Is
> there a known problem that I need to address or work around? At the risk of
> going off topic, is there a way to view the current source, rather than the
> original, so I can see what was injected into the page DOM?
>
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