[NFBCS] Anyone Know Why JAWS Does Not Just Ignore ARIA Attributes That Are Not Supported

[Nicole Torcolini]

            I noticed something strange today when I was on a website. All
of the links in a particular area seemed to be expanded. Upon further
investigation, it turned out that the web developers had put aria-expanded
on the containing div-no ARIA role on the div-and, rather than just ignoring
the misplaced aria-expanded, JAWS was applying to the links inside of the
div. I checked both Firefox and NVDA-the developer tools do not show the
links as having aria-expanded in the accessibility tree, and NVDA does not
announce it-so a JAWS idiosyncrasy.

 

Nicole

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