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From: Moore,Michael (Accessibility) (HHSC)
Date: Sep 14, 2016 3:19PM

JP what the screen reader was actually accessing was pure conjecture on my part based upon the behavior. I used the a-viewer tool to see what was being presented through MSAA.

Since NVDA did not have issues with aria-describedby or aria-labelledby in IE and that information was not available through MSAA per the a-viewer tool I made the assumption that NVDA must be looking directly at the html elements to find the information.

JAWS only announced the correct content from aria-labelledby and aria-describedby when that content was correct when looking at MSAA through a-viewer. This only occurred when looking at the output of a-viewer when focused on the FF window. Thus I concluded that JAWS was not getting this information from the HTML and trying to find it through MSAA.

My logic may be flawed but it's the best explanation that I could come up with.

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