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Forms: Text fields must use an aria technique to announce the message #45400

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Jetpack

Quick summary

aXe DevTools report accessibility errors with Jetpack Forms' text fields, as in this example:

aria-errormessage value g49-email-email-error-message must use a technique to announce the message (e.g., aria-live, aria-describedby, role=alert, etc.)

Steps to reproduce

  1. Visit this example site: https://www.julephouston.com/private-events-catering/
  2. View axe DevTools console report.
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Fewer than 20% of the total website/platform users

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Moderate

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Simple, Atomic, Self-hosted

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    Needs triageTicket needs to be triaged[Focus] AccessibilityImproving usability for all users (a11y)[Plugin] JetpackIssues about the Jetpack plugin. https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/[Pri] Low[Status] Auto-allocated[Type] BugWhen a feature is broken and / or not performing as intended

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