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Re: aria-describedby in JAWS 14

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From: Tony Olivero
Date: Oct 25, 2012 2:30PM

Zoe,

I just tested with Firefox and IE. It appears to be fixed in 14. The extra
info only got read once.

Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: GILLENWATER, ZOE M [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 15:22
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: [WebAIM] aria-describedby in JAWS 14

Hi,

Does anyone know whether JAWS 14 has fixed the bug of aria-describedby
content being read twice? See this page for a demo of this problem:
http://wps.pearsoned.com/WAI_ARIA_Testing/221/56717/14519713.cw/index.html.
I don't see this as being fixed in Freedom Scientific's list of
enhancements, but I don't think their list is comprehensive
(http://freedomscientific.com/downloads/jaws/JAWS14-previous-enhancements.as
p). I'm not able to download version 14 right now to test it myself.

As a side note, does anyone know of a way to work around or avoid triggering
this bug in JAWS 13?

Thanks,
Zoe

Zoe Gillenwater
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AT&T Consumer Digital Experience

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