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Re: JAWS aria-describedby

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From: Miriam Fukushima
Date: Jul 16, 2019 7:29AM

Hi,

> 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.
I have tried that as well, but JAWS still only reads the value of the
legend but not of aria-describedby.

It only works when I insert an extra paragraph with the value of the
legend and then give the legend an aria-labelledby with the value of the
IDs of both paragraphs.

But then it is a concatenated label and not split into label of the
fieldset and additional information of the fieldset.

KR Miriam

On 16.07.2019 15:13, Birkir R. Gunnarsson wrote:
> 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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