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From: Sandy Feldman
Date: May 9, 2018 2:51PM

Jonathan, thanks. I have taken the aria-describedby off again, and it's
just plain text. I hope this works!

Sandy


On 2018-05-09 3:45 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>
>> >> >> >> > > > > --
Sandy

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