Attempts Remaining Text Hidden from Screen Reader Users

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Hi there,

We have recently had an accessibility audit done on our courses, and an issue was flagged about the “X Attempts Remaining” text underneath activities. It was not a problem with NVDA, but was an issue with JAWS, and may be an issue with other screen readers.

I don’t fully understand the issue as I do not use screen readers, but this is what they said:

“The text X attempts remaining which appears once users have submitted answers to the multiple choice questions, has an aria-label applied to its parent div and the actual visible text hidden from screen readers using the aria-hidden attribute.

However, aria-label is not supported on divs, so this means that the text will be ignored by some screen readers.

Recommendation: Remove the aria-label and the aria-hidden attributes so that the visible text can be exposed to screen readers as it is to sighted users.”

Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks!

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Hi @Melissa - can I ask if the course being audited was published some time ago?

The reason I ask is that I changed the way the attempts display works back in November last year - specifically in response to our accessibility auditors having flagged an issue with the accessibility of the ‘attempts remaining’ text…

Re-publishing the course should resolve this issue.

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Hi @Matt_Leathes , yes the course was published a while ago, so this makes sense. Thanks so much!

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