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How to make screen reader read the Live-region text first and input button label after

I've added a button which have aria-label attribute set and an event listener is added to that button. <button onClick: toggleFavourite(), aria-label = "favourite button label">...
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How can screen readers like NVDA automatically read an element that goes from display: none to block? Aria-live not working well

I have a complex multi-column form that the NVDA screen reader reads perfectly well after the page loads, including aria-labels, fields, order of elements, etc. In this working scenario, the form is ...
Dan Oliv's user avatar
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Chrome sending entire element to screen reader when any change is made

At some point recently (I believe during the v80 update) Chrome has started sending the entire contents of an aria-live element to the screen reader whenever content is added. Previous to this, it ...
Buddy Wagner's user avatar
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sr-only not working in Internet Explorer

I have a live region where a button when clicked increments the count value displayed(similar to votes/likes). The message to be read out by the screen reader is a computed value, example: "1 person ...
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How to stop 508 Jaws aria alert queue

My current codebase uses the following function to create alerts to notify blind users that that something has occurred, e.g. "Bob successfully assigned to Blue team." var create508Message = function ...
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Make screen reader to read only the row that changed when all table is reloaded

I have a table with multiple rows and columns. This table as a whole is reloaded by AJAX once in a while. When the table is reloaded, I want to inform screen reader users only about data that changed. ...
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aria-live on textarea not working with JAWS

I am using html textarea to simulate a command prompt. On typing a command command (e.g. ipconfig) and hitting Enter key, the command output gets appended to to the text. To read the output I have ...
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How to make Error Message Readable by JAWS

I have following Error message on screen, but its not readable by JAWS version 15 screen reader. <span aria-live="assertive" aria-invalid="true"> <span class="accessibleText">Error</...
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Aria-Live="Assertive" is not read by JAWS

Hello Stackoverflow community. This is my first question, but I will try to be as concise and detailed as possible. I have been tasked with updating our ASP.NET web applications to be section 508 ...
Ray Phillips's user avatar
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JAWS doesn't read dynamic content. IE11

I have a search form. When user submits form, ajax request is sent to the server. When the response comes, I update found items count value, but JAWS reads previous items count value. To get JAWS read ...
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