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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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How can screen readers like NVDA automatically read an element that goes from display: none to block? Aria-live not working well

I have a complex multi-column form that the NVDA screen reader reads perfectly well after the page loads, including aria-labels, fields, order of elements, etc. In this working scenario, the form is fully visible when the page loads. However, I need…
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Accesibility dynamic content issue

Is there any possible way to make dynamic values accessible for screen readers? The problem is if there is a value, it is read out but if there is no value, it is completely skipped by the screen-readers. However I want to read it out either as no…
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JAWS 2018: Making a select/drop-down "clickable"

I'm working on a website project and fixing accessibility defects. Constraints of my setup: Operating System is Windows 7/10 Browser is Internet Explorer 11 Accessibility software is JAWS 2018.1804.26 I have no control over these contraints, so…
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IE JAWS screenreader skips

content

I'm currently working on accessibility. The form that I'm working on is broken into steps. Each step has is on template, when I go from step 6 into step 7, JAWS does not read the

element. From the image above, JAWS goes from step 6 into…

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How can a button be not announced as "button" by screenreader when it reads it?

I have HTML buttons and want them to not be announced as buttons by the screen reader. Is there a way for it? I am using the button for Rating.
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Jaws doesn't read table cell content

I am trying to make table readable by jaws. What are the necessary aria tag needed to make it readable.
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Label html string being read by screen reader

I've got some dynamically generated html building a drop down menu using the Dojo library. I need to make my code Accessibility compliant and right now the screenreader looks at the menu item and reads it as plain html: menu.addChild(new MenuItem({ …
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Is a h3-tag allowed within legend of fieldset?

I have developed an application with forms. These forms are structured with fieldsets so you can see which input fields belong to a section. Each fieldset has a legend. The code looks like:
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Accessibility tool JAWS vs NVDA for flex air application

I have a flex AIR application and trying to add accessibility to it. I tried to use JAWS demo version doesn't seem to work well at all. It doesn't detect the names of my text input all the time and all the buttons, I need to click on it in order…
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How to identify from where it got trigger

I have two trigger point one is edit icon and other is add save button . on click on edit iocn and save button one model get open . model is same for both . I want to make back focus on click on (x) icon of model from where it got trigger . how…
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accessibility test fails: Elements must have their visible text as part of their accessible name

I have a button that has visible text 'Make default', like the following button < button type="button" aria-label="Click to make this your default card"> Make Default I want to give accessible name 'Click to make this your default card'…
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JAWS does not seem to be able to identify a data table

We have a data table in a page and we want screen reader to read that as table. NVDA reads it as a data table by default. But JAWS does not seem to be able to identify the table element and reads the text from left to right row by row without…
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