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No dialog role is announced by JAWS screen reader when dialog is appear in the screen

I have created a dialog component in react using MUI library. I am working on WCAG 2.0 integration and testing the component in Chrome + JAWS. No role "dialog" is announced by the screen ...
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JAWS is not identifying buttons or reading button text

I am using buttons in my application , but on pressing b or insert b, JAWS is not identifying the buttons and saying "no buttons were found". When I manually tabover to the button, button ...
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JAWS 2022 does not read chrome web page upon launch

I am using JAWS 2022 to check accessibility of web pages on chrome. Once I launch the JAWS 2022 software , I am able to read webpages on IE but for some reason JAWS is not reading out chrome web page ...
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Is it possible to configure Chrome 'Make a call' popover from my web application?

For example, in some place of my web app I have clickable a phone number: <a href="tel:+1234567890"> +1234567890 </a> This phone number occur 'Make a call' popover in Chrome. ...
Art Olshansky's user avatar
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JAWS not able to read ins/del elements with ::before and ::after pseudo-elements in Chrome

I'm a developer on a web application that features a text editor. I'm trying to build functionality into the editor to track insertions and deletions and I want it to be accessible. I'm using ins and ...
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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 ...
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JAWS reads content of previous field

do you know how is it possibile that when you enter to an input, JAWS first read content of previous field? Is it possible to fix it or it depends on browser you use? This is my code: <!-- ...
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Accessibility of confirm dialog in chrome

The confirmation dialogues in chrome are not accessible to JAWS screenreader (Version 18.0.2945). I experienced that with a simple onbeforeUnload dialog as well as with a javascript confirm dialog. ...
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Jaws Screen Reader Cross Browser Inconsistency

So I have been trying to add proper aria tagging and html to some custom checkboxes and toggles, but found that they are not being read properly in JAWS on IE but they read fine on JAWS with chrome. ...
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How can I have the ChromeVox extention pronounce all HTML form errors, not just one?

I'm curious how to read all errors that appeared when HTML form is filled and the button clicked. All errors - such as "please enter your middle name", "please enter your age" and so on should be ...
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Aria-live attribute not working on chrome

I have multiple sets of dynamic content on my page that get updated following some user interaction. I want the updated content to be read out by a screen reader but the live region is not being read ...
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How can I get NVDA and JAWS to read out the Hans Hillen datepicker correctly in Chrome in forms mode?

A while ago, a fellow named Hans Hillen created some accessible versions of the jQuery UI controls. The popup version of his accessible jQuery UI datepicker has been implemented in a prototype I'm ...
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Why does Chrome have issues with JAWS screen reader?

Often, I have observed that Chrome and JAWS do not work very well together, while Firefox works seamlessly with JAWS.
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Does CEF3 supports JAWS and accessibility?

I am trying to use JAWS in my application which uses CEF3 as the embedded browser with .NET Wrapper Xilium which is using CEF3 3.2171.1875. But JAWS only partially reads the screen and does not do it ...
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