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Re: Screen readers that DISPLAY what they see

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From: Isabel Holdsworth
Date: Jun 6, 2019 3:45AM

Hi Haim,

>But recently I discovered a bug where aria-label text obscured (to the
screen reader) the test of the HTML <LABEL> tag.

If you mean that screenreaders were speaking the text inside the
aria-label attribute and not the text inside the <label> tag, that's
correct behaviour, as the aria-label overrides any other means of
labelling an element.

Developers are often confused about the purpose of aria-label, and
think it can be used to add extra information to what's already in the
<label> tag. But it's a replacement rather than an addition. If
aria-label is present, <label> is ignored.

Hope this helps.

Cheers, Isabel

On 06/06/2019, Marissa Sapega < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hi Haim,
> The Paciello Group has a tool called JAWS Inspect
> (https://www.paciellogroup.com/products/jaws-inspect/) that converts JAWS
> speech to text output. One feature is the "Speech Viewer," that will provide
> a live log of JAWS speech. You can download a demo version here:
> https://www.paciellogroup.com/products/jaws-inspect/downloads/ if you'd like
> to try it out.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Marissa
>
>
> > > > >