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Re: Speaking text through screen reader on webpage?

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Apr 27, 2016 7:48AM

> But I hear nothing. I know I must be missing something simple, but what?

Three comments:
* JAWS 17 I believe fixes a an issue with prior versions of JAWS in IE not announcing some live regions. So if you are using IE and JAWS it could be related to that. If you are using a different screen reader it may be useful to try different screen readers.
* As Joe pointed out it could be related to how you are hiding the content with display:none (depending on screen reader it should may work with display:none though
* An FYI The role of log is by default a live region a shouldn't require adding aria-live -- but you seem to be wanting to change the default "polite" threshold to "assertive" -- in theory that should work -- but I thought I'd point it out.

Jonathan

Jonathan Avila
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