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JAWS is a computer screen reader program for Microsoft Windows.

JAWS (Job Access With Speech) is a computer screen reader program made by freedoms cientific for Microsoft Windows that allows blind and visually impaired users to read the screen either with a text-to-speech output.

According to May 2012 survey by WebAIM, JAWS is the most popular screen reader worldwide with 49.1% of survey participants using it as a primary screen reader.

Website: JAWS download page

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Need java applet to help test screen reader

My employer purchased a license of "JAWS" screen reader for us to test out for a potential new employee who is visually impaired. I've been testing it on all our internal applications (mostly web apps) and everything has worked fairly well, except…
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How to make JAWS read a simple label?

It should be simple, but apparently no one knows: If I add a Label control to my Windows Forms based dialog, and I want this label to be read by JAWS, how would I achieve that? It works fine using the AccessibleDescription for other controls like…
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Is there a JAWS-friendly date picker for ASP.NET?

Does anyone know of an ASP.NET date picker control that works well with JAWS? Barring that, do you have any tips for making the existing ASP.NET date picker control easier to use for JAWS users?
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how to make JAWS screen reader to read the title document to read separately letter by letter instead of sentence?

I am using the title element to update the document title and using JAWS reader to read the page. Facing issue with the way it is reading the title of the document. Below is my code to update the title attribute var _doctit = "MY…
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Making JAWS announce aria-selected status

I have a page with tabbed navigation, and I need to make JAWS announce the tab statuses. For example: ________ Shop | Cart | Recent orders | Profile -------------------------------------- When the user moves through the above tabs, JAWS…
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Generate a PDF from HTML with tags for accessibility

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 generating PDFs from HTML do not embed accessibility…
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JAWS not entering auto form mode on radio buttons

I have a form with 120 radio buttons, grouped in 30 fieldsets of each 4 radiobuttons. There is one submit
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How to make JAWS screen reader recognize and read content of cefsharp ChromiumWebBrowser control?

I have winforms application that contains cefsharp ChromiumWebBrowser component. I want JAWS to read it's content. Now JAWS only read title of main window. Is there any way to achieve this? I tried "force-renderer-accessibility" flag but it didn't…
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Does each screen reader have a preferred browser? (i.e. JAWS, Voiceover, NVDA etc)

I'm studying more on how to make my code more accessible but have recently stumbled upon Chase's accessibility statement making the comment that the JAWS screen reader tends to prefer Internet Explorer and NVDA works better with FireFox. Source:…
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CSS content and screen readers (JAWs)

I am using CSS content to generate icons from a font set. The problem is that screen readers, most notably JAWs, are reading out the content also! So the following: and: .uxf-search::before { content:…
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Jaws reading hyperlink twice in IE 11

I'm trying to mark up some xhtml so that dropdown menus can be read by Jaws but I'm having trouble getting it to work in IE 11. The link texts are read out twice as I tab through them. It works fine in Firefox. I've simplified the xhtml as much…
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How do you make the Loading icon accessible for screen-readers like JAWS?

So the HTML code is this:
Processing... please wait
Even though the ALT text is provided, upon changing the style to show…
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How to get JAWS to update its cache of aria-hidden values

I have a webapp where we dynamically toggle the aria-hidden attribute on certain elements in response to user input. This seems to work fine with VoiceOver but apparently fails miserably with JAWS. When I set the value to true and then back to…
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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 am not using JAWS screen reader. However, once I load JAWS screen reader, it does not execute alert when I press the spacebar. I need to use…
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aria-relevant when replacing entire table contents

I'm testing some of my accessibility implementations using JAWS and noticed that for one of my tables, the entire table gets read every time one row gets added, despite the use of aria-relevant=additions. The relevant markup is as follows:
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