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Re: Button button, who's got the button

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Mar 23, 2015 8:40PM

Yes, there is a longstanding bug with JAWS for button elements that have text content whether hidden or not where aria-label is not announced. This is common in icon fonts. So for example as Jeff said

<button aria-label="my label"><span aria-hidden="true">Symbol here</span></button> would not have the aria-label announced by JAWS with the arrow keys.

Where as
<button aria-label="my label"></button> with no text inside the button element would have the aria-label be announced by JAWS.

This issue seems to just affect the button element.

I'd encourage people to let Freedom Scientific know this should be addressed. I'm sure if multiple people bring this up they will be happy to fix it.

Jonathan

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