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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Mar 23, 2015 8:41PM

Jeff

It is important to file an issue with Freedom Scientific regarding how
Jaws treats aria-label attributes on buttons in browse mode (I observe
same behavior in IE11, at least with Jaws 15, have yet to test with
16).
I am on the Jaws beta tester team so I can help you file a bug for this.
Feel free to contact me off-line.
aria-label is perfectly valid in this situation and should be
available in browse mode as well as forms mode.
It may not solve your problem today, but it should help solve it in a
year from now, hopefully.
-Birkir
Disclaimer: I am not singling out Jaws here as an example of a
horrible screen reader, I would say the same for any other bug in any
other screenreader that we discover in the course of our work. By
reporting bugs we help improve the user experience as well as making
it easier for developers to make their content accessible.




On 3/23/15, Bishop, Jeff - (jeffbis) < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Thank you everyone. I think aria-label will not work here because some of
> the test cases fail when arrowing through the page... I will evaluate the
> code samples here. Again, thanks so much.
>
> Jeff
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