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From: Angela French
Date: May 16, 2013 3:48PM

>Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Another example of role="alert" not being read by NVDA
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>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.
>
>
Susan,
We put the error in a <div> tag and still it does not alert the user. Is there any way that the user can discover this error message by have the screen reader read what is on the page? I tried with NVDA (IE9 and FF 20) but I am having trouble making it read anything outside of the form once it is in it.
Would it be possible to test it for me?
http://168.156.9.250/GEDVerify/default.aspx