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No impression of many keystrokes jaws accessibility
I have event listener for keydown and i want to check for arrowup and arrowdown press key event. However when jaws is on, these keys are ignored. Only few key worked like ctrl, alt, tab etc.
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What determines where the focus goes back to when clicking on a browser's back button?
As far as I can tell, it is in part determined by the HTML spec's History API1, specifically the value of history.scrollRestoration. Quoting the HTML spec's scroll restoration mode paragraph:
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JAWS screen reader is reading an aria-label twice
I'm facing an issue with the JAWS reader where it is reading the column value twice.
JAWS screen reader is reading twice aria-label="High Priority Reminder Subject Reminder Message Attachments ...
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JAWS announces document after tabbing to the next element after an iframe
Currently working on a web application that uses an iFrame.
Once i navigate to the next element after the iFrame, which is a button, has type=“button”, and the word ‘Cancel’ in it, JAWS announces ‘...
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Do screen readers understand HTML escape characters (like " for double quotes)?
I'm updating a aria-label value method that's currently escaping the value to be safely used in a HTML element attribute.
So it would convert <span> abc" to <span> abc"...
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There should be only one H1 heading on a single page
I was told by the accessibility team that there should be only one H1 on a single page.
Ref on the internet: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/Heading_Elements#...
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I am using NVDA and its reading the close button multiple times ,but in jaws its reading perfectly
This is the code for that close button which is part of the modal pop up...
<h2 class="sc-ejdXBC byjYiM MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h6 sc-EoWXQ kOYWJk MuiDialogTitle-root" id="...
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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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Keyboard navigation in custom drop down without using javascript
I have an angular app in which there is a component that has div style as button and clicking it open or close another list of div.
I need to make this app accessible. I can handle enter with angular (...
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JAWS repeating description when pressing keys to type
I'm trying to fix an issue with JAWS 2023, when I hit some key in these textboxes it announces like this:
if I type "P" on the textbox, it's announced as "P username P" or "P ...
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Jaws Chrome - on tab focus on button announcing lot other information
When we do tab focus on edit button, it is announcing lot other information including job title, description and aria-label of others button that are check and cross and other issue when we focus on &...
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In JAWS while closing the accordion jaws focus is going to next item
JAWS and chrome> while collapsing the element, the focus is being shifted to the next element instead of having it on the same element.
Steps to reproduce the issue:
tab to first element and ...
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How to make a div element navigable by arrow keys when using JAWS
I would like to make a div element navigable by arrow keys when JAWS is running. The div should not be navigable using the TAB key; so using tabindex is not applicable.
Here is an example snippet of ...
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My screen reader is not reading content inside the div tag with role button
<div role="button" aria-label="Open" tabindex="0">
<span title="open file">go to file</span>
</div>
My screen reader is reading ...
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How to make JAWS not read an anchor tag as link but as button
I have a requirement where I have an anchor tag in my HTML page.
<a aria-label="Back Button" class="secondary-button btn-font" title="Back" ngClass="btn-font"...
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