Content in scroll panel read by JAWS

Hello all, I appreciate the continued support from the community but I'm not out of the woods yet. So I provided all the suggestions you have provided to our 508 team and they are still unable to get this to read correctly. That said I tried something else, I added a state to the text field to allow it to have focus, which it does and it reads perfectly now, the only problem we are running into now is when it finishes reading it calls it out as a button. 

Is there a way to remove the "button" tag from it when adding a state to a text field. I have checked and the button set is already set to none. 

Thanks