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Re: Aria-describedby for entire checkbox grouping?

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From: Alex Gonzalez
Date: May 11, 2022 12:31PM

Thanks for the replies everyone! I'm going to go the route of putting the
description text in the legend as it sounds like that method will work
across the widest assortment of assistive technologies.

On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 10:34 AM glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> That's how I had tested it the other day when this was first posted, but I
> didn't reply with my results. I put buttons before and after the fieldset
> so I could hear what happened when I tabbed into the fieldset. The
> accessibility tree is correct. The fieldset has an accessible
> description. But NVDA does not announce the description whereas JAWS does.
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 4:53 AM Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
> > On 11/05/2022 11:38, Birkir R. Gunnarsson wrote:
> > > aria-describedby on a fieldset has worked consistently for me when
> > > entering/exiting the fieldset. What happens if you have links around
> > > tis grouping and then tab into it (or shift-tab from the link after)?
> > That's how I tested it ... using devtools, I added a button before and
> > after the fieldset, to test the tabbing into/out of. No announcement of
> > the aria-describedby text in my case (Chrome 101.0.4951.64, NVDA
> 2021.3.5).
> >
> > P
> > --
> > Patrick H. Lauke
> >
> >
> > > > >