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Re: [External Sender] NVDA not announcing the Legend tag

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Sep 28, 2018 11:05AM

This sounds like the same issue.

NVDA does not read the legend of a fieldset in browse mode.
It only announces the legend if application mode is triggered (e.g.
for radio buttons or dropdowns)

The issue was filed because of a fieldset containing checkboxes, but
the same applies to a fieldset containing only buttons, neither of
these control types trigger NVDA's application mode.
The best you can do is to comment on the issue, I can do the same.
Also trigger a Twitter conversation with the NVDA team to try and put
it higher on their stack of issues. It's been sitting there for 4 or 5
years now.



On 9/28/18, JP Jamous < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> The only thing I was able to find on the web was a bug in NVDA. If an input
> field is used before the buttons, then NVDA goes into forms mode and speaks
> the legend. If it is in browse mode, it won't honor it and read the legend.
> https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/5291
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> https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/3321
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