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Re: Enquiry regarding NVDA Clickable announcement and WCAG

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From: Laura Fathauer
Date: Jun 27, 2024 8:41AM

Note that there is a setting to turn off the announcement of "clickable" in
NVDA, under "document formatting" then "elements".

Laura


On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 1:24 PM Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> I'd say this is NVDA's behavior/choice, and yes it often caused by an
> event listener in a parent/ancestor, rather than on the current element
> itself - which, in cases where a site uses things like event delegation,
> will cause a lot of noise/unnecessary "clickable" announcements.
>
> But, this is an issue with NVDA, and not a WCAG failure (barring any
> other situations where it's obvious that it fails because you didn't add
> a role="..." or similar to an element that is *intended* to be
> actionable/clickable).
>
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