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From: Haim Roman
Date: Jun 6, 2019 4:30AM

Thanks. I meant that the bug was in the way I used the aria-label.
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On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 12:45 PM Isabel Holdsworth < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > >