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

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From: Isabel Holdsworth
Date: Apr 30, 2018 5:57AM

Yes, I'm using Jaws 2018 and Chrome 66.0.3359.139, the latest build as
of today. The labels work fine, but the last part of the question
(aria-describedby?) isn't spoken with Jaws.

On 30/04/2018, Mallory < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >