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Re: Speaking text through screen reader on webpage?

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From: Alex Hall
Date: Apr 27, 2016 7:54AM

Thanks guys. The display:none was the problem after all, so I switched to
just using my visual div where I display the progress as the announcement
div. I should have said that I'm using the latest NVDA on the latest
Firefox.

As to datepickers, how do people handle speaking the value? It looks like
the text field to which the picker is attached isn't updated until the user
presses enter, so I can't just use the field as my element to speak. I
could always put the new value in the field by binding to the picker's
onChange event, but would that look odd visually? Is there a way of hiding
divs for use with screen readers only that doesn't involve so much CSS as
Joe sent? I can do it, but it seems like there's be a more elegant way by
now. A special ARIA tag that tells the browser to not display it, but to
keep it in the DOM? Thanks!

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> > 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
>
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