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Re: [External Sender] Instructions inside forms

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From: Brian Lovely
Date: Nov 14, 2019 11:09AM

I don't think so, since there's nothing to put the attribute on. The
instructions are for the form, not for any specific input, and the form
element itself only triggers forms mode, it doesn't announce.

The document role seemed promising at first when I was reading about it on
the Mozilla Web Docs site, but I'm not sure what I think.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/Roles/Document_Role


On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 12:50 PM Colin Osterhout < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Would the "aria-describedby" attribute
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/ARIA_Techniques/Using_the_aria-describedby_attribute__;!0Ns9_1dOjwg!ISNDynGrm24eNY8SOsiJ9cQwiA8yD6H6_fAbw_onwrmYHQMHxsYq10RkQiA_MAogqSfXuQ$>
> 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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