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Re: Button button, who's got the button

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From: Yamanishi, Evan
Date: Mar 24, 2015 9:20AM

Interesting, I hadn¹t tested this on JAWS yet. VoiceOver reads all
versions as ³Help, button² when both navigating through form elements and
arrowing through items.

Evan


On 3/23/15, 10:41 PM, "Birkir R. Gunnarsson" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

>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
>>
>>