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Re: aria-label issue with JAWS

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jul 19, 2018 4:46AM

I added aria-label to ul elements, with and without tabindex="-1".
IE11 on Windows 10 announced the aria-label value on both.


On 7/19/18, Mallory < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hi,
>
> UL's already have a "list" role by default, but having a role isn't enough a
> lot of the time, especially for IE.
> https://developer.paciellogroup.com/blog/2017/07/short-note-on-aria-label-aria-labelledby-and-aria-describedby/
>
> It mentions IE specifically, where Microsoft has a thing in their API where
> they look for either certain roles OR a tabindex to decide whether an object
> is "accessible" and therefore can have accessibility thingies in it like
> aria-foo.
>
> cheers,
> Mallory
>
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018, at 10:29 AM, Mohith BP wrote:
>> Do you have provided any valid role for <ul>?
>>
>> On 7/18/18, Kakarla Meharoon < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> > hi everyone
>> >
>> > In IE browser aria-label is not read out by the JAWS and aria-label is
>> > present on the UL element
>> >
>> >
>> > *Thanks*
>> > >> > >> > >> > >> >
>> >> >> >> > > > > >


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