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From: GILLENWATER, ZOE M
Date: Oct 29, 2012 2:02PM

Don, please do report this bug! Thanks!

I did more investigation into it and found that the real trigger of the bug is not putting the description text in something other than a <label>, as that initial page I linked to suggests, but rather it is not repeating the text of the label in its entirety at the start of the description text. Strange, eh? More info and demos here:
http://zomigi.com/test/aria-describedby_jaws13-bug.html

I'd love to hear from at least one other JAWS 14 user that this bug is still indeed in place, though...

Thanks,
Zoe

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-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Don Mauck
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 1:42 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] aria-describedby in JAWS 14

I will report this as a bug, if it isn't already reported to the BETA testers bug database.
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From: Patterson, David K (ITD) [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 11:37 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] aria-describedby in JAWS 14

Hi,

No, I am using JAWS V14 and when I went to the test page that you mentioned, I got the same problem with JAWSS 14 reading the aria-described lines twice.

David


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-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of GILLENWATER, ZOE M
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 4:22 PM
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.asp). 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
Web Accessibility Technical Architect
AT&T Consumer Digital Experience

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