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

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Apr 26, 2017 1:58PM


Bryan Garaventa has a very thorough and good explanation of the hand
off between the author, the browser, the operating system and the
screen reader here:
http://whatsock.com/training/


On 4/26/17, Jeremy Echols < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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?
>
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