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Re: JAWS aria-describedby

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jul 16, 2019 7:13AM

Hi
No, you need to use the aria-describedby on the <fieldset> tag
directly, not on the <legend> tag.
Keep in mind that group labels work a bit differently in different
screen readers, the group label/aria-describedby is typically only
announced when the user enters the group (e.g. tabs into the first
control in the group), they are seldom, if ever, announced in browse
mode.


On 7/16/19, Miriam Fukushima < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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
>
> > > > >


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