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Re: Instructions inside forms

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From: Colin Osterhout
Date: Nov 14, 2019 10:49AM

Would the "aria-describedby" attribute
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/ARIA_Techniques/Using_the_aria-describedby_attribute>
be appropriate here?

Colin

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 8:46 AM Brian Lovely via WebAIM-Forum <
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> A non-semantic container of instructions that don't relate to any
> individual input are hard to discover because the screen reader has
> switched into forms mode. I saw a technique where the element is provided
> with a role of document and tabindex of zero. It didn't work too well when
> I tested it without the tabindex, but to me this breaks the "semantics" of
> only actionable elements being in the focus order.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions about making instructions in a form more
> discoverable?
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