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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Aug 19, 2017 8:30PM

Yay! I love bugs that get fixed, which is why NVDA is so exciting.

On 8/19/17, Pratik Patel < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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
> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> 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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