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Re: JAWS, aria-live and aria-atomic

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From: Weston Thayer
Date: Jul 13, 2020 6:12PM

Yes, I believe this is
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id67257, which should
be fixed in Chrome 84.

On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 6:02 PM Alan Zaitchik < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

>
> Has anyone seen the following? I have a Span that contains an input field
> and an adjacent inner span. The inner span contains a percent sign. The
> outer span has aria-atomic=true and aria-live=polite. In NVDA and Voiceover
> all changes to the input field are announced (politely) along with the
> percentage sign. Jaws 2020 ignores the percentage sign despite the
> aria-atomic. I'm using Chrome for this test. I don't care about IE or Edge.
> Is this a known bug?
> Thx.
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