aria label on a div alternative text for background images.

I've been coming across lots of CSS images in background lately.

   1. I was going to provide advise to use aria label  on the div like this
   with the view to make a technique for us. <div role=image
   class="backgroundimage" aria-label="this is the aria label">Some test
   text</a></div>
   2. But neither NVDA or JAWS most recent versions in most recent versions
   of FF and IE read the aria label. SAFARI and VoiceOver worked however...
   3. I looked it up in the ARIA test harness and the aria label should
   report to the API...

have other people had this experience.
Test page:
http://davidmacd.com/test/aria-label-on-div-surrounding-image-with-alt-text.html

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