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Re: Glyphicons and aria-label or alt=

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Date: Aug 14, 2020 8:24AM

Can you share the code for one of the glyphicons?


Thanks.

On 14/08/2020 15:07, Farough, David (CFP/PSC) wrote:
> Good morning;
> I have been testing a single page app which uses glyphicons.
> The application requires a user to answer several questions and provides a score at the end.
> Possible values are low, medium Medium high and High.
> A glyphicon appears before your score and aria-label was used to label it as "your score".
> I noticed that Jaws was not speaking the label, so I suggested using alt="your score" instead.
> This did not work either.
> This does work with NVDA for both methods.
> With Jaws this worked best using IE11.
> Chrome and Firefox did not work.
>
> Am I missing something, or is this a Jaws bug?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions or information on how best to use Glyphicons accessibly.
>
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