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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-live and JAWS

I'm trying to get an aria-live region to work correctly with JAWS 11 and IE8. Using the code below, I can get JAWS to announce the new value when the button is clicked, but the behaviour is not what I would expect. JSFiddle of this example
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aria-label and label not both read

Please consider the following markup. For me this markup is what is generated after my custom tooltip…
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Prevent background items from receiving focus while modal overlay is covering them?

I am working on making an overlay modal more accessible. It works essentially like this JSFiddle. When you open the modal, the focus doesn't properly go into the modal, and it continues to focus on other (hidden, background) items in the page. You…
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Screen readers and Javascript

I'm creating a website for a reading service for the blind and visually impaired and I'm using JavaScript (with jQuery) to print some stuff to some of the pages after the page has loaded. Will the screen reader read the content that is printed to…
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Can you force a screen reader to read numbers as individual digits?

Phone numbers are typically all digits, ignoring parens, dashes, pluses, etc., so input fields for phone numbers are typically numeric. When a screen reader encounters a numeric input field, it'll read the value as a whole number. For example, if I…
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How to prevent JAWS from saying "invalid entry" on required fields?

When using HTML5 attributes to mark up a form with required fields, JAWS 14 in Firefox (and possible others) announces empty fields as "invalid entry" the first time the user focuses on them (i.e. the first time the user encounters the…
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How do I indicate to a screen reader that a time is hours and minutes, not minutes and seconds?

I've got the following fragment of markup in a webpage: Time spent: 00:02 JAWS reads this as "Time spent colon zero minutes and two seconds". How do I indicate to JAWS that this should be read as "zero hours and two…
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Are Keyboard shortcuts mandatory for 508 compliance

I researched a lot on this and seem to be getting conflicting answers on SO and all of the web. I understand that with Section 508 that compliance DOES NOT equal accessibility. Biggest thing is that the UI/UX designer is being told that keyboard…
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WAI-ARIA, IE7, and JAWS

One of the projects I am currently working on has customer requirements for IE7 and 508 compliance. This customer currently uses JAWS version 9 and is making requests which I am told are impossible without a newer version of JAWS which supports…
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Text console for development in JAWS?

I'm working on a web application and I want to make it easy to use via screen reader. Testing stuff in JAWS is time consuming. Is it possible to make JAWS display text instead of reading it? I don't want actually to hear the content during…
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How to get Jaws to read aria-describedby attribute

The problem is as mentioned in the title and here is what I have as my HTML code.
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    Alt Text for generated SVG

    HOW can i add alt text for the following generated SVG ? I have only access to the html. the flowing SVG is in div. This is reading the numbers generated by Js function.
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    aria tags - force screen reader to read some text

    on my website a user can click on a "livechat" button and a chat window appears. I was looking for some text to get read out (for accessibility users with a screen reader) When the chat window appears the focus goes to the input text box - where…
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    aria-label, aria-labelledby and aria-describedby: very unforeseeable behaviour in screenreaders

    I just noticed that although the aria-label, aria-labelledby and aria-describedby attributes are said to work on every element (see https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-1.1/states_and_properties#aria-describedby), they only seem to work for a few elements…
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    Tool to know what screen readers will read

    I am working on web portal accessibility for my project. I am not very fond of listening to screen readers while i debug my changes. Just wondering if there exist any tool, which can tell what the screen reader would read out. This is to understand…
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