screen-readers Questions
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I need to implement a form with placeholder text and no visible labels, but still have it be accessible to non-sighted users. Setting a text-indent: -9999px on the labels hides them, but adds extra...
Frogmouth asked 24/1, 2015 at 3:9
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I'm having an issue while testing our webapp for accessibility that despite being seemingly very simple, I haven't been able to find a clear answer for on Google.
The issue is that the screen read...
Gameto asked 22/10, 2015 at 20:1
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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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While it is recommended to use the title attribute on the <abbr /> element, this has no effect on screen readers (at least not on chromevox).
<abbr title="as soon as possible">ASAP<...
Fontaine asked 1/10, 2015 at 13:5
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Simple question. I was told that the use of, for example, this
<span class="fa-stack fa-lg">
<i class="fa fa-cloud fa-stack-2x"></i>
<i class="fa fa-cog fa-stack-1x"><...
Sharpedged asked 27/9, 2015 at 20:10
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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 have an old iOS app developed in Delphi / FireMonkey. Now the customer calls and says he app does not work with screen readers - and if there is a solution for that.
i guess i will have to upgra...
Housen asked 13/8, 2015 at 10:4
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I want to make my HTML page suitable for screen readers.
Currently, the page have 3 main parts: header, sidebar and content:
Screen readers read header at first, then sidebar and finally search...
Oira asked 10/6, 2015 at 15:53
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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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How do you notify screen readers using WAI-ARIA that a div is now visible?
If we got the html
<div id="foo">Present main content</div>
<div id="bar" style="display: none;">Hidde...
Unpaged asked 27/4, 2012 at 11:42
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I've written a site that uses jQuery to display a modal popup. It essentially covers the entire viewable area of the screen with an overlay, then shows a DIV that contains the actual popup on top o...
Claro asked 28/3, 2012 at 3:16
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A co-worker referred me to http://access.aol.com/dhtml-style-guide-working-group/#menu, but I'm not sure how up to (or out of!) date the information there is. I also tried http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-...
Logician asked 9/10, 2014 at 20:12
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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 have a simple webapp with a bunch of recipes and I'm trying to make it accessible to people who use screen readers.
Often cooking temperature is denoted simply as C (for Celsius) and F (for Fahr...
Equivalent asked 6/3, 2014 at 13:35
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I'm looking for an accessible way to define whether a field is meant to accept integer or decimal amounts. The input fields come in two varieties: a simple <input> which is meant for decimal ...
Stipend asked 4/12, 2013 at 20:43
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I have a page with n sections. The sections are hidden and can only be shown by clicking their respective links.
On page load, only the first link is active and the rest n-1 links are href="#&...
Sheff asked 8/11, 2013 at 10:9
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I'm trying to improve the accessibility of my Delphi made application to vision impaired users. My application uses many custom GUI components. They mostly descend from TWinControl or TGraphicContr...
Cirrhosis asked 8/7, 2013 at 5:32
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In my web application, I have made myself a font that consists solely of icons. I use these icons to complement titles and sub titles within the application and make it more visually appealing.
How...
Pinkerton asked 1/4, 2013 at 23:4
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I want to detect whether a screen reader is running on a user's machine to avoid sound clashing with audio tag in html. If so, please provide details on how this could be done.
Arleyne asked 10/10, 2011 at 11:34
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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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How to hide any element from page only from Screenreader but not from page for normal users?
I know these snippets but I want to hide something from screen redaer but not from page visually. Sscre...
Michaeu asked 25/1, 2011 at 17:23
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Which screen reader would be best to test site accessibility and how to configure that screen reader to test website (or default screen-reader setting would be ok) and which browser should be...
Mueller asked 24/2, 2010 at 4:33
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Does it matter <strong> in <em>
<p><strong><em>Some text</em></strong></p>
or <em> in <strong>?
<p><em><strong>Som...
Parfitt asked 4/2, 2010 at 14:58
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I have the following design I am required to markup, the layout of which I cannot modify:
Please ignore the filler text, I know it doesn't make much sense.
I opted for a table, as it feels 95% t...
Sough asked 5/9, 2012 at 23:38
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I'm trying to have Screenreaders (I'm testing with NVDA) read out the AutomationProperties.Name and AutomationProperties.Helptext of the focused Controls.
However all it does is saying "MAINWINDOW...
Intensity asked 21/6, 2012 at 13:48
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