JAWS can't read pop up window text

[whitesword]

Using window class in GWT, display the window with text and two buttons. ariarole set on the buttons. Jaws only reads the text of the pop up window after clicking a button on the pop up window. Any ideas why this is happening?

[sujaydutta]

Wanted to update of a solution we found, it seems like if we set the role to "alert" Jaws reads the modal window contents. Something like this:

<window>.setAriaRole("alert");

More on this here: http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2010/10/jaws-support-for-aria/

[Isomorphic]

But we've already got ariarole set to "dialog" in this case, which JAWS claims to read (according to the URL you just posted). Note the framework automatically puts focus in the default button.

[sujaydutta]

For some reason, "alert" seems to be working instead of "dialog". As per this link http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/20...port-for-aria/,

Role Comments
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alert - This role does not appear in either the virtual buffer or forms mode, but its contents are spoken by JAWS when an alert is made visible.

dialog - This role will be announced only when a child of the dialog gets focus, and will not appear in the virtual buffer.

We are using Jaws 13.

[Isomorphic]

Are you seeing the button automatically get focus? If you provided your own buttons and you aren't focusing on them, you could create the problem described.

[sujaydutta]

I think the issue was in the session timeout modal windows, when it appears in the app after a specified time, the contents were not read by JAWS, after we added the role of "alert" its working fine.