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Re: Combo box not Speaking the Label When Tabbing

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From: Srinivasu Chakravarthula
Date: Nov 26, 2017 10:16PM

If it has associated label, it should read by screen reader. Can you please
share the link / code snippet to look at? I use word press to good extent.
Playing more these days. so may be able to investigate.

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On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 4:58 AM, Joey G. < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hello.
>
> Is this a normal behavior that when I land on the combo box when I press
> tab from a prior form field all JFW is saying is the word (required) and
> not the label I put which is (subject)? Note that I have less control with
> the HTML code since the form is made by a WordPress plugin.
>
> This is not part of the question but I notice there's the
> aria-invalid="false" in the code. I'm saying this because I once read a
> thread here discussing the announcement of the invalid message even the
> field is empty.
>
> > > > >