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Re: Dojo Dijit Checkboxes Double Announcing in Screen Readers

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From: JAKE JOEHL
Date: Mar 2, 2015 8:58PM

I have noticed this on numerous occasions, not only with checkboxes and not only with VoiceOver. To me it is just a minor nuisance, but I suppose it does need to be improved upon. I'm thinking mainly of surveys I've taken where the questions and/or their accompanying answer choices will be repeated twice or even more times. I'm reminded of a situation that happened at my volunteer job not long ago. I am the Social Media Assistant for a nonprofit disability-related organization based here in Illinois called JJ's List. We have a website where people can review the disability awareness—or disability unawareness—of businesses. One of the businesses that joined our directory not so long ago was Survey Monkey. What happened was that a review was posted by a screen reader user indicating that the Survey Monkey website worked great with screen readers, which it still does. But this reviewer also posted that one minor bug they found was that in several cases, the screen readers that said reviewer used all echoed things multiple times. Someone then contacted our founder saying that this review had been posted, and that the reviewer had actually claimed they couldn't use their surveys. This wasn't true, since the reviewer had in fact reported positive results when trying to access Survey Monkey. So the email was forwarded to me, and I helped them join our directory.
Jake
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On Mar 2, 2015, at 9:03 AM, Graham Armfield < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

Jonthan said:
> It's possible that the use of aria-checked state along with the
> HTML checked property is causing the issue. ARIA states
> are either true or false while HTML properties such as
> checked indicate it is checked while when it is not checked
> there is no checked property set.

Thanks for your response Jonathan. Removing the aria-checked attribute is
something I thought of straight away. But after removing the attribute the
result was still the same.


Regards
Graham Armfield



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