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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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Prevent jaws from saying "password" in password-type input fields

I have a field which uses a password-type input (). It is not a password field but we need it to behave exactly like a password field. Whatever label we add/put in, Jaws reads it as "what-ever-label password edit ...". How can…
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How do I make my Java 8 application JAWS enabled to help blind users?

How do I make my Java 8 application JAWS-enabled to help blind users? I have tool-tips for all options, but a customer who uses JAWS says my application does very little and does not read the tool-tips. How do I make it do that?
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How can I make JAWS read the contents of a UserControl the same way it does a Window?

JAWS (the screen reader) is treating the contents of a WPF user control differently than the contents of a window. The first time a user tabs to a focusable element in a user control, JAWS reads the entire contents of the user control instead of…
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Asp validation summary not accessible for visually impaired people

In my web app there are several forms which are using asp:ValidationSummary and asp:Label for client and server side validation of the form. But when I use a screen reader (JAWS 16) for accessibility test on the page it just skips the error and…
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JAWS / Web-Aim Is there any way to specify text as "a time" for screen readers?

If JAWS comes across a time in my page like so:
20:15 04:15
Then it reads them as "Twenty colon fifteen" which doesn't really sound like a…
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JAWS doesn't read dynamic content. IE11

I have a search form. When user submits form, ajax request is sent to the server. When the response comes, I update found items count value, but JAWS reads previous items count value. To get JAWS read new content I use aria attributes and…
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How can I ensure JAWS reads the link text rather than the URL?

I have the following code, used to present a number of radio buttons that needed to be significantly styled. The issue that I am having is that JAWS announces the full URL of the web page whenever an anchor gets the focus, rather than announcing the…
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Why are screenreaders not speaking this dialog correctly?

We have a modal dialog being popped up using jquery, just to alert a user of some info before they start using the main part of the application. Nothing complex, but for some reason all the browser/screenreader combinations I've tested with fail to…
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Is there anything that shows what works/doesn't for various screenreader/browser combinations?

I'm enhancing the UI for an application to be more compatible with screen readers. The problem is I keep running into issues and I'm beginning to suspect that it' due to the screen reader itself. Right now I'm mostly testing JAWS 15 with IE 8 (due…
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Jaws 16 not reading "alert" role in IE 11

We are facing an issue with Jaws 16 and IE 11. We have some tooltips on the web page where we have assigned role as "alert" so that when JAWS reads it it will will first announce 'alert' and then reads the text. It was working fine for JAWS 15 with…
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Screen reader consistency issue

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…
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Using JAWS to get key events

I need to capture the current time each time a spacebar is pressed on the browser while using JAWS Screen reader. I am able to capture the spacebar if I am not using JAWS, however, the system cannot capture any spacebar once JAWS is on. Here is…
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Heading with link not listed in VoiceOver Headings rotor

To make a site I'm working on WCAG compliant I'm adding semantic structuring to it. I've noticed if the heading is additionally a link it is not picked up by the screed reader I'm using (VoiceOver). That is:

This is a H1 heading

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Using JavaScript, how can you track if a website visitor is using a screen reader?

As the title suggests, how would I tell if a user is using an assistive technology, such as the Mac screen reader or JAWS, and then record that using an analytics suite, such as Google Analytics? This Google Analytics forum didn't turn up any…
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NVDA reading dynamically-added content twice

I'm working on making a dynamic web application accessible to the visually impaired via screen readers, and I'm running into an annoying problem. When I test my code (see below) with JAWS, it works perfectly fine. But when I use NVDA, I'm getting…
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