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Re: ARIA and Label tags both for Error Messages

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From: Susan Grossman
Date: Feb 13, 2014 6:03AM

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 4:30 AM, Stanzel, Susan - FSA, Kansas City, MO <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Good morning Listers,
>
> Okay, I understand placing the error at the top of the page. I thought
> JAWS should automatically speak the error. Is there something I can do to
> force that to happen?
>
> Susie Stanzel
>


Believe the ARIA alert role (role="alert") would do what you want. Think
that automatically triggers the "assertive" mode. For those with modern
versions.

Susan Grossman



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