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Re: JAWS, aria-live and aria-atomic

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From: Weston Thayer
Date: Jul 14, 2020 8:42AM

Correct.

On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 11:56 PM Vaibhav Saraf < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Sorry for the foolish question. I am new to ARIA and not know much as of
> now. What little I understand is that if area=atomic is set to true in the
> parent span then the % in the inner span should also be announced, which is
> currently ignored by JAWS. Is that right?
>
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 at 05:42, Weston Thayer < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
> > 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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