Questions tagged [jaws-screen-reader]
JAWS is a computer screen reader program for Microsoft Windows.
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JAWS is reading the form labels twice instead of single time
I faced some strange behavior with the JAWS reader where it was reading the question labels twice.
In the below code, I added an aria-labelledby for the radio group which referenced the question id ...
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Screen reader not reading headings with only 1 character
I am fairly new to working with accessibility and am encountering an issue with JAWS and Narrator screen readers wherein it couldn't read numbers/letters that consist of only 1 character.
Below is a ...
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Screen Reader message for closing modal
We have a requirement where we are having hard time implementing.
User closes modal via "X" or "Cancel" button. The screen reader should tell the user that pop-up is closed and ...
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JAWS screen reader scrolls the FireFox page up/down with arrow keys instead of navigating between elements
I'm using JAWS 2022 for a11y testing. Everything works fine on Chrome and worked fine for a while on FireFox, too, until recently. Suddenly I can't navigate between the elements using the arrow keys. ...
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How to prevent JAWS from reading password when typing any key on keyboard?
Jaws is reading passwords. How can I prevent it from reading the password while I am at the password field? I started typing my password and it announces my password. Also, how can I prevent it from ...
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JAWS scrollable content issue
I'm working on building a accessible website in which we have a web page where upper half part of web page is taken by an image and lower half part of website is a scrollable region where we can ...
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Push JAWS to read updated title or text
I need to push JAWS screen reader to pronounce a new page title that gets updated in let's say 10 seconds.
Unfortunately, the issue doesn't look that trivial.
It looks like setting title dynamically ...
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JAWS reading document title multiple times on Edge
JAWS is reading document title multiple times on Edge. On Chrome it's working fine.
I added react-helmet node package in my project and JAWS is reading the title multiple times on Edge.
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My Title
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Jaws not able to read the aria-pressed="false". When I try to use down-arrow key
I have a button tag.
<button type="button" aria-label="Toolbar bold text" title="Bold" aria-pressed="false">
When I try to use JAWS to read the Bold ...
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JAWS screen reader is announcing both the name of the two buttons when navigating on second button
While navigating the "unsubscribe" button screen reader announcing both elements as view results and unsubscribe
<div role="cell" >
<...
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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 to identify from where it got trigger
I have two trigger point one is edit icon and other is add save button . on click on edit iocn and save button one model get open . model is same for both .
I want to make back focus on click on (x) ...
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JAWS reader reads a year different depending on how you navigate to it
I have a h3 element with a year in my HTML.
< h3>2022< /h3>
(but without the spaces)
I am using the JAWS reader to read the page.
If I use the arrow keys to navigate through the page JAWS ...
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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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How to prevent Tooltip content reading in JAWS reader
I am using Tooltip for multiple input elements and showing the Tooltip on input elements both hovering and clicking. I need to prevent the JAWS reader from reading the Tooltip content while hovering. ...
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