Jaws Does Not Announce Aria-describedby On Select Box In Ie

I am trying to use aria-describedby on select box, but JAWS does not announce the text associated using the aria-describedby attribute in IE. I have even added tabindex='-1' to the

Solution 1:

You can use aria-label="spanId"

Make sure you don't use title and aria-labelfor the same HTML element because title gets suppressed.

Solution 2:

Using IE11 and Jaws 17 I have observed this issue as well.

My take is that this is a bug.

Until it's addressed by Freedom Scientific, I'd recommend using aria-labelledby.

This means something slightly different semantically:

a label describes the essence of an object, while a description provides more information that the user might need.

Source: Mozilla Developer Network

But it's probably the best substitute you have available.