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Re: Labelling a "fill in the blank" form field

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From: Mallory
Date: Apr 30, 2018 5:06AM

Hi,
is this with Chrome browser?
We were using aria-labelledby on select inputs inside a table and were hooking up the th's to them with aria-labelledby and while it was fine as expected in IE and FF (and someone else claimed it worked in Edge as well), in Chrome/chromium there was nothing to hear unless you did table navigation.
I'd be interested to know if it differs per-browser since JAWS was just barely a majority SR for students using our stuff; not working means it needs to be revisited!

Though very recently Steve Faulkner had tested our test page (with the tables and selects) and it worked with the latest-latest JAWS and could no longer reproduce.

cheers,
_mallory

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018, at 12:59 PM, Isabel Holdsworth wrote:
> Hi Mallory,
>
> Thanks for these great examples.
>
> Unfortunately, using JAWS 2018 with advanced user verbosity, I can't
> get the value of aria-describedby on any field. So this solution is
> close but not perfect for our needs.
>
> My solution of combining three labels, the middle of which is a hidden
> label that says "[fill in the blank]" seems to work well.
>
> Cheers.
>
> On 27/04/2018, Clayton Silva < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> > Any thoughts on how to work with fill in the blank when HTML and question
> > rewriting/reordering are not options?
> >
> >
> >
> > I am specifically thinking about cases where the fill-in part is not
> > necessarily meant to receive an answer, but rather where the whole question
> > is an example and where the technology might be Word or PDF--like either an
> > electronic version of a print publication or a public-facing draft of a
> > print publication.
> >
> >
> >
> > Some thoughts:
> >
> >
> >
> > · using a pre-defined symbol placeholder
> >
> > · using an inline/in-order image of a blank line with "fill in the
> > blank" as alternative text
> >
> > · using words in brackets like {blank} or {fill in the blank}.
> >
> >
> >
> > All of these have drawbacks.
> >
> >
> >
> > Clayton Silva
> >
> >
> >
> >