NVDA won't read text in layers

Hi Joe,

No, that's not the case. What's happening is the screen reader is missing out several of the elements and jumping to a later one when it moves between layers. This happens on every slide we have that has layers on, on every course we've tested so far. So if there are two text boxes, a button and an arrow, for example, it will jump straight to the button or arrow and ignore the text despite the other two being correct in the focus order. You can cycle backwards through the order using the up arrow, and everything is there, but these items never appear after the layer jump.

This was recreated by your support agent who stated that "This issue is connected to a report we're currently monitoring, where the screen reader focus doesn't follow the focus order when a layer is displayed". I have been contacted separately to say "We’re still working on this software bug, and we’ll definitely let you know as soon as we have an update".

If this is not the case and there is something that can be fixed I'd really love to know, as we currently have the dilemma of offering courses that are not fully accessible or redesigning large amounts of slides to avoid using layers completely.