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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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aria-hidden true read by JAWS

Using jQuery add role alert in #div1, read #div2 content even if it is hidden for JAWS.
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Have screen reader pronounce Country codes in a text input as individual letters

I am working on an Angular app that displays selected Country codes in a text field. This input displays Country codes because of space constraints:
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Does jaws support the aria attribute aria-owns?

I have a page which I am supposed to make accessible without too many changes. One combo box in the page is coded so that on clicking upon an input box, the contents of a div are copied into an iframe element in the same page, and that iframe is…
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JAWS not able to read ins/del elements with ::before and ::after pseudo-elements in Chrome

I'm a developer on a web application that features a text editor. I'm trying to build functionality into the editor to track insertions and deletions and I want it to be accessible. I'm using ins and del tags to mark the changes and I was using this…
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For password box Jaws reader reads "password edit password edit password edit"

I have an UWP applicaion with a password box inside it. I have JAWS 2020 reader install in my system. For the password box the JAWS reader reads "password edit password edit password edit". Is there any way to make the JAWS reader read the password…
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What is the correct way to make screen reader read span text

I am new to accessibility, I have a span with text like below Account Information By default screen reader doesn't stop on my span and doesn't read it, so I googled and searched on SO, but none of the solutions work I…
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Accessibility for HTML reading out link and not label?

Hi I have the following question in regards to accessibility, I'm using JAWS screen reader software to test my code and I have the following issue: JAWS reads out the heading label for the category, but it doesn’t represent the category and its…
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Reading child element when parent is focused - accessability

I am using the mat-tab-group from https://material.angular.io/components/tabs/overview.(used complex labels approach with ng-template) The tab contains a name of the tab and a button to close the tab. Whenever i focus the tab, it reads both…
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JAWS not reading the Control.AccessibleDescription property

I'm using JAWS (2019) as a screen reader for a WinForms application. When I set the Control.AccessibleName property - JAWS read it properly but when I change the Control.AccessibleDescription property JAWS just doesn't read it. I tried to use…
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Will a JAWS script override a screen reader's ability to read the DOM?

I'm tasked with evaluating some legacy web pages (classic asp) for accessibility. You can assume the HTML is not perfectly formed and that it's loaded with inline javascript and that we make use of javascript libraries that vomit HTML to create…
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How to make JAWS screen reader read elements in wpf application sequentially?

I have a WPF application window where user needs to enter their username and password to log in. As shown in the following image. wpf window I want JAWS to read the text like this. My Application Login window Enter your username and password and…
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Screen Readers and Browser Events

Do any of the commonly used screen readers emit browser events that can be scripted with javascript? Or, are there current or planned javascript APIs to communicate with screen readers in the same way there are now APIs for working with other OS…
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Make JAWS read page title programmatically when loading new content

I've inherited a project that uses a lot of click-triggered JS to change page content instead of linking to different actual HTML pages. I'm being asked to make JAWS read the page title when this happens, as if a new page is being loaded. From my…
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ASP.NET MVC - How to detect if user is using a screen reader

So I'm currently trying to check if a user is using a screen reader on our site. The reason I would like to check if they are is because our site provides a training module in which if they are using a screen reader, I would like to show a button…
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JAWS does not read ul and li elements as a list

NVDA reads correctly. JAWS read only Link 1, Link 2 (content is Link 1, Link 2), but do not read that is is a list list-style-type: none; html:
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