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Is the declaration "Document" that aria role="document" says to a screen reader ever confusing?

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From: MEJ - Beth Sullivan
Date: Feb 4, 2015 2:15PM

Hello,

The way that the company deals with modal overlays is to have a <div
role="dialog"><div role="document">...</div></div>.

I believe this was devised to support our IE8 browser requirements. My
testing team who is doing the accessibility testing noted that the title of
the modal "Change Record" is followed by the screen reader saying
"document" because of the role="document".

My question is does this confuse screenreader users. My gut says that
screenreader users are accustomed to hearing "… Document". I'm not a
screenreader users though, I would love to hear your perspectives and/or
other testers' experiences.

Thank you,
Beth