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Re: Readonly Field Problem with IE 11 and JAWS 16

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From: Andrew Normand
Date: Oct 25, 2015 5:11PM

Disabled radio buttons and check boxes, that are selected, are not identified correctly when using NVDA + IE11.

NVDA + FF and NVDA + Chrome read the disabled fields correctly. JAWS also reads them out correctly when using IE11, FF and Chrome.

You can try it for yourself here:
http://www.unimelb.edu.au/accessibility/testing/disabled.html

NVDA developers are aware of the issue: "As if there weren't enough stupid bugs in IE's accessibility implementation, IE doesn't expose the fact that radio buttons or check boxes are checked via accessibility APIs when they are disabled." See: http://community.nvda-project.org/ticket/3674


Andrew Normand  
Web Accessibility Lead
The University of Melbourne
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unimelb.edu.au/accessibility