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

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From: Isabel Holdsworth
Date: Oct 1, 2018 7:40AM

Hi JP,

As a work-around, would you be able to mark it up as a dialog instead?
JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver all read dialogs beautifully so long as the
correct ARIA attributes are used.

Cheers, Isabel

On 28/09/2018, JP Jamous < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> I agree. It's been 3 years according to my research. They need to do
> something about it.
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> From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of
> Birkir R. Gunnarsson
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2018 12:05 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] [External Sender] NVDA not announcing the Legend tag
>
> 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
>>
>> https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/3321
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>> Brian Lovely via WebAIM-Forum
>> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2018 11:44 AM
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>> Cc: Brian Lovely < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] [External Sender] NVDA not announcing the Legend
>> tag
>>
>> It doesn't announce at all? What about if you switch out of forms
>> mode? I wonder if it's not announcing because it contains buttons
>> instead of a group?
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 12:39 PM JP Jamous < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>
>>> I have the below markup. JAWS 2018 is reading it with both IE11 and
>>> Firefox
>>> 52 ESR.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> NVDA, on the other hand, is not reading the legend in either browser.
>>> I am using NVDA 2018.3. Is this a bug in NVDA?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> <fieldset>
>>>
>>> <legend>
>>>
>>> Would you like to take our survey?
>>>
>>> </legend>
>>>
>>> <button>
>>>
>>> Yes
>>>
>>> </button>
>>>
>>> <button>
>>>
>>> No
>>>
>>> </button>
>>>
>>> </fieldset>
>>>
>>>
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