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JAWS not supporting aria-sort="none"

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From: megha patangi
Date: Dec 19, 2022 8:02AM

Hi Web Aim team,

There is a scenario where we have three states of sorting on table
column headers.
1. sort ascending
2. Sort descending
3. Sort none

The first two are rendered properly by screen reader, but as soon we
click and aria-sort="none" is passed, JAWS announces "sorted" which is
incorrect. Rather it should announce "unsorted".
Same is observed with all latest versions of JAWS.

Any idea about it?
Any way to handle it, or it can be reported as non-compatibility of
aria state with screen readers?

Regards,
Megha