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Re: NVDA announcing the title of the dialog twice

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From: Priti Rohra
Date: Jan 9, 2022 11:51PM

Hi Sudhir,

You can bypass this behavior as it is specific to NVDA and happens in
case of alert dialog. In case of modal dialogs, NVDA reads the title
once correctly.

Always BPositive!
Priti Rohra



On 1/9/22, Sudheer Babu < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Hope everyone is staying safe and doing well!
>
> I wanted to check if any of you have encountered the issue where NVDA reads
> out the title of the dialog twice when the focus is on any of the
> interactive elements inside.
> Like the example from the link below, where an alert dialog is displayed
> upon activating the discard button, NVDA reads out the title of the dialog
> twice.
>
> https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/examples/dialog-modal/alertdialog.html
>
> From what we have tested, this seems like a problem with NVDA, as JAWS
> announces the title of the dialog only once.
>
> Does this require any specific fix/hack for NVDA or is this something
> common with NVDA that we can bypass.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Thanks,
> Sudheer
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