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Re: How JAWS provides labels for unlabelled forms in some scenario's

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jul 12, 2016 6:57AM

I don't think there is anything public about how screen readers guess
form field labels (and they should never have to).
There are fairly simple things, such as Jaws will likely speak any
text that is inside same container as the form field, especially text
that preceeds it.
In general screen readers will look for text around the form field and
announce it.
If form field is laid out in a two-colum table with the form field in
the second column, Jaws will read the value in the first column of
same row as the formfield's label.
You can play around with different placements in HTML and figure out
what screen readers will do.
While it is a somewaht interesting exercise I wouldn't spend too much
time on it, since the whole point is that authors should assign the
labels explicitly, otherwise the screen readers will all guess, and
they will inevitably get it wrong some of the time.
-B


On 7/12/16, sucharu < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I wish to learn about
>
> 'how JAWS provides labels for some unlabeled forms in some situations'.I
> wish to learn about algorithms that JAWS run in order to meet this.
>
> Best,
>
> Sucharu
>
> > > > >


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