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Setting aria-hidden attribute for text output

3013368Nov 24 2015 — edited Nov 30 2015

Hi everyone,

I need to have some sort of output text displaying a certain "value" but I need JAWS to read it's accessible alternative "accessibleText" instead of "value". Basically, "value" should always be displayed but should never be read by JAWS, and JAWS will always read "accessibleText".

<af:outputText id="id" styleClass="class" visible="true" shortDesc="tooltip" clientComponent="true" description="accessibleText" value="value">

Here are some of the things I've tried, but I still haven't been able to make it work:

This post has been answered by Timo Hahn on Nov 24 2015
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