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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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Accessibility for dropdown component

I am implementing accessibility for dropdown component, the special feature of my dropdown is it populates values in options menu only while opening dropdown,meaning it on the fly compiles the template and attaches to the dropdown box. Dropdown…
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How can I have the ChromeVox extention pronounce all HTML form errors, not just one?

I'm curious how to read all errors that appeared when HTML form is filled and the button clicked. All errors - such as "please enter your middle name", "please enter your age" and so on should be pronounced. aria-invalid="true", role="alert",…
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What is the keyboard shortcut for skipping to landmarks with JAWS 17?

I am using JAWS 17 and can't seem to find the keyboard shortcut to access ARIA landmarks. I have implemented a role="main" attribute in my markup and have attempted to access the landmark using ;. Whenever I try to access this landmark, JAWS…
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Jaws 17 and startup keyboard shortcut

I've a friend who need use a screen reader. He uses Jaws 17 and Jaws 16. He puts a startup shortcut Ctrl+Alt+K for Jaws 16 (I don't see it on shortcut on the desktop... don't know where he does it) And He puts Ctrl + Alt + J for Jaws 17. This I can…
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How do I set the aria-hidden attribute on a XAML form?

How do I set the aria-hidden attribute on a XAML form? More precisely, I need to set the aria-hidden attribute programmatically on the .xaml.cs file. I need to set the aria-hidden to true because right now I have two interfaces overlapping, each one…
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How to make JAWS (the screen reader) read 2 different controls one by one

I have a WPF dialog with 2 controls on it. Currently JAWS can only read one of them which got the focus on. The target is to make JAWS read both of them. - Is it possible to programmingly move the focus from one control to another? - Or any…
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Angular Js and Jaws

I am making a website screen reader compatible which is develop on angular framework. Page is taking around 10 to 15 seconds to angular-bootstrap and load all content (using ajax). When i run JAWS 17 on my SPA, Jaws is not able to read page(I think…
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Jaws issue with knockout binding

I am using Jaws screen reader for accessibility web development.I am facing an issue while binding the values using knock out.The order in which the jaws announces the web content is different. The content is Name Changes Date Received :…
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Accessbiliy issue with Calendar ctrl pageup while JAWS is running

I'm trying to change year of datepicker using Ctrl + PageUp of below URL http://oaa-accessibility.org/example/15/ It is working fine till I launch JAWS, Once I launched JAWS its not working. We observed it is changing month instead of year. For…
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Best way to make JAWS read an embedded iframe's content

I'm trying to change the content of an iframe in a webpage and want JAWS screen reader to read only that content. For this, I have used jQuery("#vn_space").focus(); But this doesn't seem to work properly in all browsers. In IE9, JAWS is not reading…
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JAWS 16 screen-reader is not reading custom control type in win32 application

I have two buttons (one is standard button caption"OK" and another is custom control button caption "Submit") in my win32 application. JAWS screen-reader is speaking out correctly the standard button "OK Button, To activate press space bar" but for…
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JAWS cannot read out the "live region" on SWT Accessibility Snippet. How can I force JAWS to read that region?

I tried the SWT Accessibility Snippet called declare a message area to be a "live region" Here is a link But the JAWS doesn't read out the "live region" text and the refreshable braille display doesn't show anything. The NVDA reads out the text but…
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JAWS Screen Reader is not detecting the dynamic value of textbox

I am developing a combo box which predicts the cities from the city list. When the user types the minimum of 3 letters and if the city list box has at least one search result, the result should be auto populated to the textbox without using the down…
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JAWS 16 not reading image correctly

We are using JAWS 16 as screen reader tool for making sure that our site is accessibility compliant. We are having site logo on the sites but those logos are not read properly by JAWS. As per the accessibility guideline we have made the alt="" of…
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Prevent screen readers from reading some text in HTML page

I am using certain text in place of an icon or image which I dont want to read out to users using screen readers like JAWS. How can I prevent this? I had tried aria-hidden but it still reads out the content. Is there any effective way ONLY to…
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