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From: Pratik Patel
Date: Aug 19, 2017 4:00PM

A fix for this problem is incubating in the NVDA development snapshots. If all goes well, I suspect the fix will show up in the NVDA 2017-4 public release.

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2017 6:05 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] NVDA not reading fieldset grouping for checkboxes when...

This is an old NVDA bug (3327) that has not been fixed:
https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/3321

NVDA only reads group labels in application mode, but checkboxes do
not trigger application mode.
If you put a text input of radio buttons in there, NVDA would start
eading the legend when you tab to those.
Ultimately this is an NVDA bug and NVDA needs to provide a fix.
You could use aria-describedby to associate the first checkvbox in the
group with the legend as a workaround.



On 8/18/17, pratik roy < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> NVDA is not reading the grouping when TAB is used to enter into fieldset
> from a link/button. As per my analysis, it is not changing reading mode to
> 'form/focus mode' from 'browse/document mode'.
> I read the same scenario after manually changing the mode using
> INSERT+SPACE and then it started reading correctly.
> This is working fine with JAWS though. Please let me know if anyone
> experienced a similar issue. If it is a genuine bug then any communication
> with NV Access would also help.
>
> Thanks & Regards
> PRATIK ROY
> > > > >


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