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From: JP Jamous
Date: Oct 12, 2018 11:54AM

I will give it a try. Thank you Birkir.



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-----Original Message-----
From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of
Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2018 12:35 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Hiding text, but still use it for

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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> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of
> Jared Smith
> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2018 11:02 AM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Hiding text, but still use it for
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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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