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Re: Radio buttons using input tag, or aria radiogroup role?

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From: Jeremy Echols
Date: Apr 26, 2017 12:54PM

I'd love an answer to this question in a more general sense. It's my understanding that the browser tells the AT what to do, so Jaws wouldn't have to know about a specific ARIA attribute; rather, the browser would have to know how to tell Jaws about the element in terms Jaws can understand. For elements like radios that pre-date the web, Jaws would already know very well how to handle them, so even an ancient version of Jaws would work.

But I'm not certain about this. Is it true that Jaws itself does not need to know about specific HTML ARIA attributes?