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

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Oct 1, 2018 8:33AM

It's a good idea technically but by doing so you would be totally
misrepresenting the look and purpose of the fieldset. It is not an
overlay of items, separate from the page, just a group of related form
controls.
I'm personally a stickler for not drastically recoding web components
because of a screen reader, but I am not always right either. *grin*
One thing you could also do is to put a unique id on the legend and
use ariaödescribedby to point to it, either from all the form controls
or just the first one (enough to give users the context and simulate
the way most screen readers represent grouped controls, reading the
common label when the first control in the group receives focus).



On 10/1/18, Isabel Holdsworth < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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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