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Re: expectations role=group / role=region

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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Apr 4, 2022 11:16AM

" I'm finding that screen reader announcements for the region role are disappearing, especially in Jaws, even if the region has an accessible name."

I forget when this was introduced in JAWS, but I filed a bug against this a long time ago. Basically, named regions are not reliably announced unless "Virtual Cursor Verbosity" is set to "High", which is "Medium" by default. Personally I find this extremely annoying.

You can see this by visiting:
https://whatsock.com/Templates/Accordions/Internal/index.htm

On the page in FF or Chrome with JAWS running:
1. Press Insert+V to open the Verbosity dialog.
2. On the option "Virtual Cursor Verbosity", press Spacebar to toggle this to "High" and press Enter.

Now you will hear named regions.

I still think this is a major issue for accessible intuitive navigation that you have to enable accessibility because it is not provided by default.



Bryan Garaventa
Principal Accessibility Architect
Level Access, Inc.
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