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Re: How to solve a talkback chrome issue for aria-describedby

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From: terrence v
Date: Dec 23, 2016 11:38AM

could you shed some light what it looks like in code to assign to the
construct , sorry I did not understand that clearly.



On Dec 23, 2016 10:09 AM, "Moore,Michael (Accessibility) (HHSC)" <
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What if you added an aria-describedby="id of error message" to the
construct as a backup? - there would probably be a risk of repeating the
error message but at least it would be read. I don't suppose polyfill
methods would work for this?

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