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From: JP Jamous
Date: Oct 12, 2018 10:58AM

I did use aria-hidden="true" Jared, but JAWS 2018 in IE11 broke that. Once I
landed on the button, it stated "Submit button". Yet, in Firefox using JAWS
and NVDA, they both honored it. That was why I was wondering if there is a
different way of handling it.



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JP Jamous wrote:

> How can I prevent both JAWS and NVDA from speaking the alert message
> as the user is down-arrowing?

If it is visible in the page, you could give it aria-hidden="true".

If it is visibly hidden, then give it display:none with CSS (rather than
off-screen or clip or something else).

In both of these cases the screen reader should still read the message in
conjunction with the button, but should not read it when encountered within
the page (whether visible or not).

Jared
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