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Re: Hiding text, but still use it for

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Oct 12, 2018 11:35AM

How about instead of aria-labelledby use aria-describedby

aria-describedby is anounced by screen readers when users focus a
button with the tab key but generally not when they down arrow in
browse mode.


On 10/12/18, JP Jamous < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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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