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From: Jonathan Cohn
Date: May 9, 2018 1:45PM

On Macintosh the aria-describedby attribute is usually associated with the Object Help tag . The configuration of reading this is managed in the VoiceOver Utility Verbosity screen in the hints tab.

I generally find that JAWS will read aria-describedby references but only when the actual focus is on the widget not just the virtual cursor.

Best Wishes,

Jonathan Cohn

> On May 9, 2018, at 12:50 PM, glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Sounds like (no pun intended) VoiceOver and JAWS both ignore the
> aria-describedby attribute on an image. I'd love to hear if anyone has a
> technical explanation for this. The accessible name and accessible
> description computation seems pretty clear to me that it should be honored.
>
> https://www.w3.org/TR/accname-1.1/#step2
>
> So, even though I think aria-describedby is a good way to link your
> description to the image, instead of a separate piece of text, I'm not sure
> you should use that solution since some users won't hear it.
>
> Glen
>
> On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 8:13 AM, Sandy Feldman < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
>> hi Glen,
>>
>> It is a shame the artist doesn't want the hidden descriptions available to
>> people who can see the paintings, but there you go.
>>
>> http://ineeda.coffee/arnie/paintings.html
>>
>> I have added aria-describedby="desc" to the images. Sounds exactly the
>> same to me in Voice Over, but I am far from an expert user. It's nice to
>> have some kind of connection, though. It's got to be better than "this
>> comes next"!
>>
>> thank you for your input,
>> Sandy
>>
>>
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