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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 I get JAWS to read the aria-describedby attribute of a fieldset?

I'm a developer working on making an application more accessible, and am very new to JAWS. Everything I've read about aria-describedby has led me to believe that adding it to a fieldset with the ID of the element containing the description will…
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Redirect programs directly to eclipse console

I am using eclipse cdt oxygen with mingw64 7.2.0 on windows 10 to write programs in c. Whenever I write programs that only outputs like: printf("x\n"); The output got printed into the console. However when I write programs that asks for inputs,…
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Accessibility Does Not Read Select Properly (JAWS)

I have a select element inside of the modal used in Bootstrap. When the screen reader (Jaws), reads the select box when it loads it reads through all the options inside of the select. Instead it should read it the way it does on a regular page,…
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JAWS does not read aria-label for link within a link inside li with role="tab"

The below is my code for aria accessibility in html.It's working fine with ChromeVox but when running with JAWS all the aria-labels are read when focus is on link Menu1.But aria-label of link options should be read when focus goes on…
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JAWS screen reader reads off all TextBlocks in WPF application when first cell is selected

We are building a 508 compliant WPF application and testing it with JAWS 18, and one thing we found was that TextBlocks in every cell of the same Grid are being read off back to back when the first item is selected. Also, it does not work if you are…
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How to create completely accessible tables using div structure in html ADA

I need the following table to be readable using arrow keys by NVDA and Jaws :
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How to make JAWS recognize and read a table inside TINYMCE editor

I am trying to make JAWS read tables in a html page (Confluence page in edit mode). The tables are inside iframe and I think that's the reason JAWS is not recognizing tables. I have added few attributes to the table after the table is rendered…
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Screen Reader not reading bullets and CSS for ordered lists

I have been converting job aids from Word docs to HTML and I am having a few issues with the screen reader I am using (Jaws 16). The ordered list I have set with CSS to present as "Step 1", "Step 2". The screen reader however does not recognize…
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How do I make screen readers read my WPF message similarly to how they read Win32 MessageBox?

We have a WPF desktop application which needs to show some custom message windows. I am having trouble getting them to be read aloud properly by screen readers such as JAWS from Freedom Scientific. I want to achieve the same behavior as when showing…
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Jaws breaks order reading after item removed from list

I faced the following issue: I have a list UL, each LI in it has it's own remove button. Using screen reader JAWS 18 if I click the first LI and remove it, Jaws jumps to the THIRD element in a list. Sometimes after removing some other LI it can jump…
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Getting alerts to read after page refresh in IE and Firefox

For accessibility purposes I need to make 'errors' that are displayed be read immediately after the page refreshes. Currently I have role="alert" and tabindex="-1' on the div that contains the error. This works fine in Google Chrome, but it appears…
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How can I prevent JAWS screenreader from reading key strokes?

I'm trying to test the screenreader dialogue on my application for 508 compliance. It works mostly how it should except a problem I'm running into is when I navigate element to element the screenreader reads each keystroke like so "TAB" when I want…
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Jaws narrator overriding my keyboard navigation functionality

We are using JAWS narrator software to verify accessibility level AA. We observed on thing related to keyboard navigation. The issue is that we have implemented grid rows navigation using up and down arrow keys. However when I open Jaws for testing…
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How to control the first line read by JAWS in Internet Explorer

I have a web application written using ZK framework. I am currently testing this application for Americans With Disabilities Act compliance. I am using JAWS version 17 for screen reader testing in Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Internet…
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Why Qt application title is followed by application path on screen reader?

I have a simple application in Qt that has a QMainWindow and a QWebEngineView that loads an html page. I've set the QApplication name and the QMainWindow title. app.setApplicationName("FooApp"); window.setWindowTitle("FooApp Window"); When I use a…
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