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aria-describedby on img tag
The purpose of this test page is to confirm user agent support for WCAG Technique ARIA15: Using aria-describedby to provide descriptions of images.
aria-describedby on a non-active image
This is a long text description of an image used to supplement the alt attribute
- NVDA
- Firefox: does not read the additional description in browse mode.
- IE: does not read the additional description in browse mode.
- JAWS
- Firefox: Indicates keyboard shortcut (alt, JawsKey - r) to read descriptive text.
- IE: does not read the additional description in browse mode.
- VoiceOver
- iOS / Safari: Reads descriptive text.
- OSX / Safari: Reads descriptive text.
aria-describedby on img tag within an anchor
This is a long text description of an image used to supplement the alt attribute.
- NVDA
- Firefox: does not read the additional description in browse mode but it does read it when tabbing to the image.
- IE: does not read the additional description in browse mode but it does read it when tabbing to the image.
- JAWS
- Firefox: does not read the additional description in browse mode nor when tabbing to the image.
- IE: does not read the additional description in browse mode nor when tabbing to the image.
- VoiceOver
- iOS / Safari: Reads descriptive text.
- OSX / Safari: does not read the additional description in browse mode nor when tabbing to the image.