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Re: JAWS and Describedby

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From: Jamous, JP
Date: Sep 14, 2016 2:09PM

I removed the role="alert". The issue remains.

What is happening is that JAWS gets the focus on the text box and goes into forms mode on. The moment I type the first letter, JAWS acts as if it refocused on the text box object.

I even removed one of the IDs and used one with aria-describedby. The issue continued.

I figured maybe because the input type is "password". I changed it to "text" and nothing different.

NVDA and VoiceOver do not do that at all. Even JAWS 17 does not do it with Firefox. Only good old IE 11.




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Jean-Pierre Jamous
Digital Accessibility Specialist & Developer
UI Accessibility Team

SME for EBN Include
Digital Accessibility Specialist & Blind and Visually Impaired Expert

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