Questions tagged [jaws-screen-reader]
JAWS is a computer screen reader program for Microsoft Windows.
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Prevent background items from receiving focus while modal overlay is covering them?
I am working on making an overlay modal more accessible. It works essentially like this JSFiddle. When you open the modal, the focus doesn't properly go into the modal, and it continues to focus on ...
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aria-live and JAWS
I'm trying to get an aria-live region to work correctly with JAWS 11 and IE8.
Using the code below, I can get JAWS to announce the new value when the button is clicked, but the behaviour is not what ...
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aria-label and label not both read
Please consider the following markup.
<label for="i1" class="inforLabel">This is a label</label>
<input id="i1" type="text" class="inforTextbox" aria-label="Title, not label" />
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Can you force a screen reader to read numbers as individual digits?
Phone numbers are typically all digits, ignoring parens, dashes, pluses, etc., so input fields for phone numbers are typically numeric.
When a screen reader encounters a numeric input field, it'll ...
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Screen readers and Javascript
I'm creating a website for a reading service for the blind and visually impaired and I'm using JavaScript (with jQuery) to print some stuff to some of the pages after the page has loaded.
Will the ...
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How to prevent JAWS from saying "invalid entry" on required fields?
When using HTML5 attributes to mark up a form with required fields, JAWS 14 in Firefox (and possible others) announces empty fields as "invalid entry" the first time the user focuses on them (i.e. the ...
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How do I indicate to a screen reader that a time is hours and minutes, not minutes and seconds?
I've got the following fragment of markup in a webpage:
Time spent: <span id="time_spent">00:02</span>
JAWS reads this as "Time spent colon zero minutes and two seconds". How do I ...
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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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Text console for development in JAWS?
I'm working on a web application and I want to make it easy to use via screen reader.
Testing stuff in JAWS is time consuming.
Is it possible to make JAWS display text instead of reading it?
I don't ...
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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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aria tags - force screen reader to read some text
on my website a user can click on a "livechat" button and a chat window appears. I was looking for some text to get read out (for accessibility users with a screen reader)
When the chat window ...
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aria-label, aria-labelledby and aria-describedby: very unforeseeable behaviour in screenreaders
I just noticed that although the aria-label, aria-labelledby and aria-describedby attributes are said to work on every element (see https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-1.1/states_and_properties#aria-...
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How to get Jaws to read aria-describedby attribute
The problem is as mentioned in the title and here is what I have as my HTML code.
<li> <a id="blog-setup" href="https://illinois.edu/toolbox/0.portlet?componentId=13&desktopId=1" ...
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How to restrict screen reader to not read a certain text?
Imagine, I have a <div> with aria-label as "Read this" (aria-label is added at runtime). Inside the <div>, I have a <span> with text "do not read this".
Now what Jaws is doing is, ...
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Tool to know what screen readers will read [closed]
I am working on web portal accessibility for my project. I am not very fond of listening to screen readers while i debug my changes.
Just wondering if there exist any tool, which can tell what the ...
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