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From: Jonathan C. Cohn
Date: Oct 13, 2018 6:12AM

This sounds like a JAWS bugged to me. With IE JAWS had to do most of the work while in Firefox, the browser is deciding what to display.


Best wishes,

Jonathan Cohn

> On Oct 12, 2018, at 1:54 PM, JP Jamous < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> 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
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> How about instead of aria-labelledby use aria-describedby
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> 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.
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>> 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:
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>>> 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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