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Re: JAWS, aria-live and aria-atomic

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From: Mallory
Date: Jul 16, 2020 10:30AM

Hi,
that ticket is about the opposite problem: that everything is announced, instead of the desired behaviour of new content only.

If you want to determine if the issue is with JAWS, even though you don't care about Firefox, see what JAWS does there. If it also won't announce the % there (and if it normally announces %s, which I think it does), it's better to file a bug at the FreedomScientific github https://github.com/FreedomScientific/VFO-standards-support/issues
cheers,
_mallory

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020, at 4:42 PM, Weston Thayer wrote:
> 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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