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Trap ARROW KEY navigation on modal using Screen Readers
I'm dealing with an issue trying to trap the navigation inside a modal using TAB/ARROW keys.
Was using a function like this to avoid the keys action to being triggered:
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JAWS is not announcing Button state collapsed /expanded for a menu button when aria-haspopup="menu"
I have a menu button like this
<app-my-buton [matMenuTriggerFor]="menu" tabindex="0" role="button" aria-label="Open Content"></app-my-buton>
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JAWS not reading the screen automatically after windows is launched
I am using JAWS 2023, JAWS is not reading the contents of the webpage when I launch the application, I know we can use sayAll command but as per my requirement JAWS has to read the contents on webpage ...
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How to best format thumbnails for accessibility?
I am frequently tasked with displaying a grid of thumbnails for work, such as on a posts/articles page, with each thumbnail linking to a separate post/article, but I have never really been sure of the ...
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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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Using aria-describedby and a screenreader-only element, not read out by some screenreaders
I am attempting to give screenreader users some additional information about a list of links and what they represent.
Rather than putting an aria-label on a <ul>, which I understand is ...
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Screen reader not reading the text based on radio button changes
I have two different captions (say Caption A and Caption B) for a single table that display based on the selection of the radio buttons. My screen reader is reading the default caption 'Caption A', ...
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After Adding Aria Tag , Screen Reader not able to read
I have Added aria-label but still Screen Reader not able to read Warning for which is 1st div .
focus goes on 1st div but not reading anything. How to tell screen reader to read warining icon ?
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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 ...
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Prevent jaws from reading "password" twice in password-type input fields
I have a password field that is reading out "password : password" by JAWS screen reader. I want to change that so it only reads out "password" once. I tried various things such as ...
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How to make screen readers read the current page content instead of reading out everything?
The screen reader reads everything from top to bottom. I have a flex navigation bar and want the screen reader to only read the selected page and avoid rest of the navigation bar content.
I want the ...
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How do you get JAWs to stop reading keystrokes?
I'm trying to add aria-labels to a webpage I'm making. I have an app listening for when a KeyCode is sent when you plug in headphones into an Audio Nav keyboard to traverse the webpage. I currently ...
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expanded and collapsed not read in jaws+chrome for a accordian button but working fine in nvda+firefox
<div class="ph-accordian-section ph-section-control" role="listitem">
<button aria-label="" aria-expanded="false" key-aria-label="accFaq1AriaLabelText"
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JAWS aria-expanded not being announced
I am trying to make the collapsed state both accessible in NVDA and JAWS but it seems its not working properly in JAWS. Any idea how to fix this?
I provided the images for the code and the link list ...
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How to prevent an HTML element from being focused in Angular?
I have an issue with JAWS screen reader on IE browser. It reads the span tag with role="alert" twice.
This issue does not occur on Firefox and Chrome.
Also NVDA works fine with IE as well.
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