Screen reader consistency issue

Question

I am using Jaws 15 and IE 8 to test acccessibility of my website and found some weird issue with role alert on page load if I am having any role alert which is apart of DOM on page load JAWS/NVDA never announce alert.

In some case role alert is not getting announced by JAWS/NVDA when I do show hide of role alert parent container i.e.:

<div clas="container">
  <div role="alert" tabindex=-1 class="validation-summary">
    <ul>
      <li> <a href=# >Please enter first name</a></li>
      <li> <a href=# >Please enter lastname</a></li>
    </ul>
  </div>
</div>

To get it announced I put focus on the alert and screen reader reads it multiple time which is annoying to user.

Is there a place where I can proper solution of these kind of problem or is it problem with screen reader?

You can find some good examples here http://test.cita.illinois.edu/aria/alert/index.php — sinduja ramaraj, Sep 22 '14 at 19:02

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 30 '14 at 09:15

try this

<div clas="container">
  <div role="alert" aria-labelledby="abcd"tabindex=-1 class="validation-summary">
    <ul>
      <li> <h1 id="abcd"><a href=# >Please enter first name</a></h1></li>
      <li> <h1 id="abcd"><a href=# >Please enter lastname</a></h1></li>
    </ul>
  </div>
</div>

Screen reader consistency issue

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