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JAWs screen reader reading older version of button text with changing Angular string interpolation
I have a button with text that changes occasionally through Angular's string interpolation. It renders to the screen fine, but when I tab over it with JAWs it often reads out the older version of the ...
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IE 11 - focus moves to different area on different computers after page loads
So there are 3 of us. We all have JAWS 2018
I have IE 11 11.557.17763.0 and my two coworkers have IE 11.885.17134.0
So I on the web page in question, there is a drop down menu with a checkbox ...
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Kendo Grid reading link tags in IE 11
I'm having an issue where if a cell contains a link to something, it reads the cell as "out of table" instead of saying that its a link and whatever text it is. Is there a workaround for this for IE11?...
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Accessibilty : jaws18 - every letter entered in the username input field is read twice in chrome
Every letter entered in the username textbox is read twice by JAWS.
JAWS version - 18
Browser - Chrome
Code:
<!-- Text input-->
<div class="form-group">
<label class="...
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Making JAWS announce aria-selected status
I have a page with tabbed navigation, and I need to make JAWS announce the tab statuses. For example:
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Shop | Cart | Recent orders | Profile
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Accessibility Does Not Read Select Properly (JAWS)
I have a select element inside of the modal used in Bootstrap. When the screen reader (Jaws), reads the select box when it loads it reads through all the options inside of the select. Instead it ...
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Jaws with aria-label
I have been working with on website where I need to use Jaws for vocals. Now issue is I have several aria-label available under one role. Now all I want is conditional speech i.e. when any control ...
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How do I make screen readers read my WPF message similarly to how they read Win32 MessageBox?
We have a WPF desktop application which needs to show some custom message windows. I am having trouble getting them to be read aloud properly by screen readers such as JAWS from Freedom Scientific.
I ...
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508 compliance for radio buttons, position issue on IE and Chrome
I need to make the radio buttons accessible to blind users. Currently the screen reader is picking up all the labels and value for the radio buttons correctly. But it is not reading the position of ...
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508 Compliance and Dynamic Web Pages
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I am working on a project that has to be 508 compliant. There is a section of the application that has dynamic elements.
For example there is this html:
<div id="dynamicDiv"></div&...
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Are Keyboard shortcuts mandatory for 508 compliance
I researched a lot on this and seem to be getting conflicting answers on SO and all of the web. I understand that with Section 508 that compliance DOES NOT equal accessibility.
Biggest thing is ...
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WAI-ARIA, IE7, and JAWS
One of the projects I am currently working on has customer requirements for IE7 and 508 compliance. This customer currently uses JAWS version 9 and is making requests which I am told are impossible ...
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