jaws-screen-reader Questions
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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...
Radiomicrometer asked 10/7, 2017 at 17:15
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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:
&qu...
Leekgreen asked 13/4 at 2:1
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I want to generate a PDF from HTML that has tags for accessibility embedded in it. In other words I want to convert HTML to PDF so that it is JAWS-friendly. The standard options out there for...
Peal asked 13/2, 2018 at 23:25
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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. ...
Skuld asked 4/12, 2013 at 21:22
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I'm testing my web page for accessibility using JAWS reader. Below is a sample HTML markup from my page.
<label for="MySelectBox">Select a color</label>
<select id="MySelectBox">...
Kino asked 19/6, 2014 at 5:0
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We have an ASP.NET MVC 5 web application. We do regular accessibility testing with JAWS in conjunction with Internet Explorer 11 (enterprise mandate) and Chrome. We keep running into problems with ...
Towery asked 14/8, 2018 at 14:51
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HOW can i add alt text for the following generated SVG ? I have only access to the html. the flowing SVG is in div. This is reading the numbers generated by Js function.
<svg class="barcode" ro...
Circumlocution asked 19/12, 2018 at 2:25
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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 in...
Cambell asked 13/2, 2018 at 1:17
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I am working on a web application which uses iFrames (please don't ask me to use something else, not my decision). There are two frames, a navigation frame, and a content frame (top down).
The na...
Auxiliaries asked 10/9, 2012 at 23:17
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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 i...
Yoshikoyoshio asked 4/5, 2018 at 7:36
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I have a WPF application which need support screen reader(especially JAWS). The issue is, JAWS does not announce anything, when the list view items have changed(added, removed). And blind users tot...
Adonis asked 9/7, 2013 at 6:48
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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...
Solferino asked 25/5, 2016 at 16:24
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The confirmation dialogues in chrome are not accessible to JAWS screenreader (Version 18.0.2945). I experienced that with a simple onbeforeUnload dialog as well as with a javascript confirm dialog....
Oestrone asked 6/9, 2017 at 14:10
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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 ap...
Beery asked 24/5, 2016 at 10:10
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I have multiple sets of dynamic content on my page that get updated following some user interaction. I want the updated content to be read out by a screen reader but the live region is not being re...
Enterprising asked 15/3, 2016 at 4:31
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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...
Claiborne asked 4/12, 2015 at 14:11
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I have a simple ASPX page like the one below:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="...
Dun asked 20/10, 2015 at 20:4
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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-des...
Diantha asked 5/10, 2015 at 14:33
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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'...
Heterogenetic asked 18/4, 2013 at 8:43
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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 wh...
Transship asked 22/6, 2015 at 6:23
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Hello Stackoverflow community. This is my first question, but I will try to be as concise and detailed as possible.
I have been tasked with updating our ASP.NET web applications to be section 508 ...
Eckhart asked 16/4, 2015 at 18:19
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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&amp;desktopId=1" ...
Sakti asked 2/1, 2012 at 19:29
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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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Demavend asked 2/4, 2014 at 13:45
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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 wh...
Decomposer asked 2/8, 2011 at 7:39
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I have three anchor tags, one with text inside and two with images with valid alt text. The anchor tag with text inside works fine with JAWS and is read properly. However, for some reason, with the...
Michaelson asked 26/3, 2013 at 15:20
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