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Re: JAWS and Describedby

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From: Moore,Michael (Accessibility) (HHSC)
Date: Sep 14, 2016 2:29PM

Hi JP,

I noticed a few weeks ago when testing issues with aria-labelledby and aria-describedby that if you examined the MSAA interface using a-viewer in IE that accDescription was never populated by IE11 but that is was when using FireFox. Not sure if this is part of the problem or not but since JAWS cannot get the description directly through MSAA in IE11 that may be the source of the problem and explain the difference between FF and IE. I think that NVDA and the other screen readers have just given up on MSAA for web information and are directly accessing the attributes through the HTML regardless of the browser but that is purely speculation.

Mike Moore
Accessibility Coordinator
Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Civil Rights Office
(512) 438-3431 (Office)