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RiaFernandez
8 years agoCommunity Member
Screen Reader Accessibility for Button States
Hi there,
I'm having some trouble implementing accessibility for my Pick Many activities. Screen readers do not seem to recognize the difference between a Normal state and a Selected state of a bu...
RenGomez
Staff
Hi Shim,
Happy to help clarify here. Different states of an object aren't included in the Focus Order since screen readers automatically announce states for interactive objects. This article shares more:
Interactive objects are correctly identified to assistive technologies and function as expected. For example, screen readers properly announce radio buttons with their labels and current states.
Can you share more about what questions you have on layer objects? You'll notice they appear on the focus order and are read by a screen reader when the layer is visited.
shimz
4 years agoCommunity Member
Just a quick question.
Do we have to alt text for the onscreen text as well for the screen reader
to read or is it for only images and objects?
I have attached the picture here.