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Re: Hiding the Phone number format announcement to screen reader user

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From: Sudheer Babu
Date: Mar 21, 2023 11:28AM

Only concern here was that announcement of all the paranthesis and
underscores might be annoying to the screen reader user and not to hide.

On Tue, 21 Mar, 2023, 10:55 pm Lucy GRECO, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> hello
> I NEVER WANT YOU TO HID HIDE SOME THING FROM THE SCREENREADER USER THAT
> OTHERS CAN SEE. IF ITS THERE I NEED TO KNOW IT
>
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> On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 10:17 AM Sudheer Babu < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > We have a screen where there is a phone number field which has a
> > placeholder which shows the format of the phone number eg: (___) -
> > (________). This shows up when the user tabs into that field.
> > The phone number entered gets auto formatted, so there's no need to get
> > this formatting announced to the screen reader user.
> >
> > On DOM, this shows up when I enable #shadow-root(user-agent) only while
> > inspecting.
> >
> > I would appreciate if someone has encountered the same and has a fix for
> it
> > already or can suggest a fix.
> >
> > <input name="$phAdmPhone_phone" type="text" maxlength="15"
> > id="AdmPhone_phone" class="form-controlxx " aria-label=" Phone Number"
> > data-parsley-required-message="Phone Number is required"
> > data-parsley-required="true" data-id="phAdmPhone_phone" maskphone="true"
> > aria-required="true" style="width:200px;">
> > #shadow-root(user-agent)
> > <div>(___) ___-____</div>
> >
> > Adding "Aria-hidden" on the input tag is causing obvious screen reader
> > issues for the field.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Sudheer
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > >