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Re: JAWS not supporting aria-sort="none"

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From: Peter Weil
Date: Dec 19, 2022 8:38AM

There's an issue on this; there seems to be some question about what aria-sort means or how it's supposed to be handled:

https://github.com/FreedomScientific/VFO-standards-support/issues/506



> On Dec 19, 2022, at 9:02 AM, megha patangi < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> 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
> > > >