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From: Bishop, Jeff - (jeffbis)
Date: Mar 23, 2015 4:16PM

Hello Everyone,



We have a site here at the University that uses buttons similar to the following:



<button name="help">?</button>



You probably are seeing where this is going already. They want to keep the visual aspect of the question marks in play for the site's buttons but we are hoping we can get a consistent screen reader experience with IE, Firefox (with JAWS/Window-Eyes/NVDA) and Safari (VoiceOver).



So far my testing shows that aria-label will work with JAWS 16 (the screen used by 95 percent of students on campus) inside of Firefox.



It only works if you tab to the button in IE with JAWS 16. If you move to the item using the virtual cursor then it only shows the question mark.



So, before I continue testing I was wondering what people have found best to accommodate all users in this instance?



I know the simple answer is to change the text inside of the button tag <smile>.



Any hints are hugely appreciated.



Jeff