WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: JAWS issue for mandatory fields

for

From: Steve Faulkner
Date: Apr 16, 2018 4:17AM

IE does not expose CSS before:/after: content in the accessibility tree,
other browsers do, which is why you are experiencing the difference. Use of
CSS to indicate state is not a robust method.

Suggest using aria-required="true" as this exposes the state in
accessibility APIs.
https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#aria-required



--

Regards

SteveF
Current Standards Work @W3C
<http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2015/03/current-standards-work-at-w3c/>;

On 16 April 2018 at 11:06, Kakarla Meharoon < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> JAWS does not recognize the required field (*) in IE browser. If * is coded
> using Pseudo elements.
>
> But i checked in Chrome and FF * is read by JAWS but in IE browser only its
> not reading while tabbing as well as arrow key navigation.
> > > > >