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Re: Using has-poppup to affect touch UIs

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From: Steve Faulkner
Date: Dec 13, 2013 9:56AM

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> Since screen readers are hardwired to announce 'submenu' and 'menu' for the
> triggering elements that contain the attribute,


this is not always the case, as mentioned JAWS announces "has pop up" on
links with a aria-haspopup attribute

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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>;


On 13 December 2013 16:53, Bryan Garaventa < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> Since screen readers are hardwired to announce 'submenu' and 'menu' for the
> triggering elements that contain the attribute, I'd recommend offscreen
> text
> for cross platform support of this type of feedback for the time being.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick H. Lauke" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> To: < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 8:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Using has-poppup to affect touch UIs
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>
> > On 13/12/2013 16:35, Bryan Garaventa wrote:
> >> Actually I had the same question yesterday, and got some confirmation
> >> about
> >> this which I've pasted below. The attribute aria-haspopup should only be
> >> used on menus.
> >
> > What about buttons that trigger a dialog/pop-up? How would you signal
> > that activating them will have that effect?
> >
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