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From: Miriam Fukushima
Date: Jul 16, 2019 7:05AM

Hello everyone,


has anyone come across a similar behavior of JAWS 2019?

I have the following HTML markup:

A fieldset with a legend, some inputs and a paragraph.

The legend contains the name of the fieldset.

The legend further has the attribute aria-describedby and the ID of the
paragraph that contains additional information about the fieldset.


JAWS does not read the value of the aria attribute in either Chrome or
Firefox.

Is aria-describedby not supposed to be used on HTML-legend-tags?


Thanks in advance for the clarification.


Kind regards,

Miriam