Top "Jaws-screen-reader" questions

JAWS is a computer screen reader program for Microsoft Windows.

aria-label and label not both read

Please consider the following markup. <label for="i1" class="inforLabel">This is a label</label> <…

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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) …

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Javascript keyevent and JAWS screen reader

I have an application that does something (eg alert) each time a spacebar is pressed. This works fine if I …

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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. …

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SPAN tag ignored by JAWS screen Reader

So I was able to get my page working just fine with the NDVA screen reader, however, when testing in …

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Is there a way to do an accessible modal?

I'm working on a project with Twitter Bootstrap and playing around the JavaScript components using a screen reader. When I …

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