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Re: Another example of role="alert" not being read by NVDA

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From: Susan Grossman
Date: May 16, 2013 10:47AM

You can see if it's an NVD only issue by trying with the JAWS demo. (
http://www.freedomscientific.com/products/fs/jaws-product-page.asp)

Also, there is a support chart on at freedom scientific site: (This is
a Word doc
http://www.freedomscientific.com/PDF/visionloss/manuals/DevDoc/JAWS-ARIA-Support.doc)


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Angela French < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> >I would question the use of a role in a span tag.
> >
> >Have you tried replacing it with a block element like <p> or <div> and
> see if it
> >works then? We have come across issues when employing the span tag,
> which is
> >really more for styling, for purposes other than style.
> >
>
> This is very frustrating to try to figure out what will work in what
> browsers. Again, using NVDA, Example A on this page (
> http://www.accessibleculture.org/articles/2011/02/aria-alert/) does NOT
> read the alert in IE9. It is in a <p> tag.
> It does get read in Firefox 20.
>
> We are under pressure to get this app into production and we cannot seem
> to get the form validation errors to announce in NVDA (the only screen
> reader we have)
>
> Angela French
>
> > > >



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