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Thirupathi Reddy Samineti
Aug 20, 2018Copper Contributor
JAWS not able to read form control buttons
Hi, I have a Workbook (2016) where few buttons are present. While doing the accessibility testing we found that the JAWS was not able to read the button text. The form control button is not associa...
Oliver Keim
Sep 03, 2018Copper Contributor
I had the same issue and did not yet find a solution.
However, you can add context menus and menu items which represent the button's action.
Alternatively add some hotkeys to trigger the button's actions. Document the hotkeys somewhere, so Jaws users can learn them. Maybe as a hint within the context menu items, such as "Send (Shift+Ctrl+S)".
I would also appreciate the buttons (and other COM objects put on top of the cells) would become accessible by default.