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Re: required field not being announced in Firefox/NVDA

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From: Beranek, Nicholas
Date: Oct 13, 2017 12:08PM

Hi Angela, can you show us the code in context? There's no reason for NVDA and Firefox not to honor aria-required and the HTML5 required attribute.

Nick Beranek
Capital One

On 10/12/17, 8:01 PM, "WebAIM-Forum on behalf of Angela French" < <EMAIL REMOVED> on behalf of <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

I have tried the following and none of them read the label of the required field after alerting the user to please fill in the require field.
aria-required="true"
required
required=""
required="true"

I give up.

Angela