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Eric
Eric

Reputation: 35

Angular/JAWS, Stop JAWS from re-reading a form after submit

I have a problem in Internet Explorer 9. I have a form that searches for a person by name. When I land on the page, JAWS reads all the fields correctly. I enter my input, I hit the submit button, JAWS re-reads all the fields again while the system performs a search. I want to prevent this from happening. So I figured, let me add an ID in my div and prevent this from happening in my controller.

In my HTML I added: div id="JawsId" ng-controller="SomeController as someController"

in someController I added the following to my search function: angular.element('#jawsId').attr('aria-live', 'off');

This has no impact. Has anyone encountered this problem and know of a way to prevent JAWS from re-reading a form after hitting the submit button? Any advice or clues would be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 524

Answers (1)

aardrian
aardrian

Reputation: 9019

This would easier to debug if we could see the rendered page.

I am not surprised aria-live does not work. That is intended for dynamically updating content blocks, not what I suspect you are doing.

Instead, try setting its style to display: none. If that does not work, you can also try aria-hidden="true".

How does this perform in IE11? In my experience, most JAWS users are on IE11.

Upvotes: 0

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