Hi!
I'm creating a screen-reader accessible form, and was dismayed to realize that--for buttons--JAWS doesn't read anything but the button caption.
This is particularly devastating with the add/delete row buttons. I have set both the Tool Tip and Custom Screen Reader Text, and even defined the precedence, but JAWS still only reads caption, "+". It needs to read "Add a new row below this one", etc. As things stand, these buttons will be completely useless for my visually-impaired users. Note: if you delete the button's caption and leave it visually-blank, then JAWS can read the tool tip/custom reader text. But that's not helpful at all.
It looks like this was an issue as far back as 2010, which is mind-boggling to me. Does anyone know a workaround for this issue?
Note: I'd rather not do the "invisible button over the image" method, since that will make things more complicated with the buttons already being in a table. I'm not sure I'll even be able to pull that one off. Is there a way to force it with JavaScript, maybe?
Any help would be hugely appreciated, thanks!
JLN