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Re: NVDA not reading text

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From: Sudheer Babu
Date: Dec 11, 2018 8:32AM

Thanks everyone, the link that was invoking the flyout was marked up with
role=button, changed it to "link" and everything works fine now 😊

On Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 3:00 PM Mallory < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Makes me think what's important here is the CSS for these elements holding
> the text: if any of them have display: none (flyouts often do until you
> open them) or visibility: hidden for example.
>
> _mallory
>
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018, at 9:00 AM, glen walker wrote:
> > The string "Text Goes HERE" appears three times in your code example.
> Once
> > in a span and two times in a paragraph tag. When I copy that code to an
> > html file and use NVDA on Firefox and I use the down arrow, I can hear
> all
> > three versions.
> >
> > I'm not sure what you mean by a "header container". Do you mean the
> > <header> element? Or are you using the word "header" to really mean
> > "heading", such as an h1 or h2? Either way, your code example didn't
> have
> > a <header> element or any heading elements.
> >
> > There are a lot of "flyout" classes. Not sure what those are doing.
> > > > > > > > > > > > >