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Make textbox contents accessible to screen readers

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Meagan on 03 Feb 2018 06:14:57

Currently, when a screen reader like JAWS encounters a textbox, the contents of the textbox are not accessible. At the least, the Show Data table should produce a single-cell table containing the contents of the textbox. Ideally, the contents of the textbox would be available to the screen reader without having to go to the Show Data table.

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0d60d9e7 76e3-ea11-a813-000d3a579c39 on 21 Aug 2020 06:27:03

RE: Make textbox contents accessible to screen readers

A very important feature indeed, especially if and when your visualizations require a bit of explaining.

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79ec61ca cf1e-4ccf-86e6-128f9280cc10 on 05 Jul 2020 23:11:05

RE: Make textbox contents accessible to screen readers

Maybe an improvement on this idea would be to auto-populate alt text for text boxes with the text box contents by default.