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

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From: Srinivasu Chakravarthula
Date: Jul 12, 2016 11:26PM

As far as I know, NVDA doesn't do such guess work. Frankly, screen reader
shouldn't do that. Because sometimes, surrounding text may be irrelevant to
the field. It's developers who has to ensure associating form labels
correctly.

Thanks,
Srini

Regards,

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Lead Accessibility Consultant, Informatica
Hon. Joint Secretary, The National Association for the Blind, Karnataka
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On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 10:52 AM, sucharu < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Now, some further questions
> 1. Can someone provide with links to pages where JAWS is announcing the
> labels wrong?
> 2. Do NVDA also do such guess work?
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