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Re: arai-describedby and aria-hidden

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From: Ricardo Sánchez
Date: Feb 4, 2015 8:41AM

Sorry. I correct some errors in my previous message.

Hello all:

I would like to know your opinion on a combination of aria-describedby
property
and aria-hidden state that I am using. My idea is to prevent users of
screen readers listen redundant content. I've tested with JAWS 15 and NVAD
2014 in IE 8, IE 11, Chrome 40 and Firefox Safari 3.6.23y with Voiceover on
iOS 8. I have not encountered any problems. Am I missing something?
Would there be any scenario in which this code could be problematic?

The code is:

<label for = "nif"> NIF </ label>
<input type = "text" id = "nif" aria-describedby = "formatonif" />
<p id = "formatonif" aria-hidden = "true"> Do not leave space between
letters and numbers </ p>

Thanks in advance.

Warm regards.
Ricardo Sanchez