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From: Jesse Hausler
Date: Feb 10, 2012 6:12PM

Having troubles with aria-describedby. Maybe someone here can help.

I have a form that has a label, help text, and depending on validation rules it may have an error message as well.

I've read through ARIA spec and blogs etc and came up with this:
<label for="dname">Domain name</label>
<input id="dname" type="text" aria-describedby="helptext win">
<span id="helptext">use format: something.com</span>
<div id="win">Success! Domain name available</div>

The problem is, it doesn't work. JAWS13 with FF10 or Chrome16 only reads the label text: Domain Name. I can't actually get IE to work with JAWS, so no luck there either.

It has to do with the second value in the aria-describedby attribute. When I remove "win", then it reads my helptext (and vice-versa).

Thanks,
Jesse

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Jesse Hausler
Sr. Accessibility Specialist | salesforce.com<http://www.salesforce.com/>;
Tel (415) 536-8902 | Fax (415) 944-1762