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

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From: Steve Green
Date: May 16, 2013 11:41AM

Can I remind everyone that you must not use the JAWS demo version for testing - the license terms explicitly prohibit this. You are only allowed to use it to determine whether or not to buy the full version. Some of us spend a great deal of money ensuring we are correctly licensed - we may not like it but it's just one of the costs of being in this business.

Steve Green


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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Susan Grossman
Sent: 16 May 2013 17:48
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Another example of role="alert" not being read by NVDA

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
>
> > > list messages to <EMAIL REMOVED>
>



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