[nfbcs] Labeling HTML Elements in JAWS

[Greg Kearney]

Try setting the label with aria-label attribute like this:

<button aria-label="Close" onclick="myDialog.close()">X</button>

JAWS should now read the button with the word "close" and not the word "X".


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> On Jul 12, 2015, at 10:12 AM, Nicole Torcolini via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Is there some kind of magic to get the custom labels for HTML elements in
> JAWS to work? I tried the custom label function in both Firefox and Internet
> Explorer, but it does not work in either of them. I restarted JAWS. When
> that did not help, I restarted my laptop, but no difference. I am running
> the latest version of JAWS on Windows 7.
> 
> 
> 
> Nicole and JAWS the naughty shark
> 
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