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In  https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/forms/instructions/  is the statement,

"One approach is to use the WAI-ARIA aria-labelledby attribute to associate instructions with form controls. At the time of writing this tutorial, this approach is not fully supported by all web browsers and assistive technologies, for example, Braille displays. To ensure backward compatibility, the for and id attributes are also used in this example."

correct as of the updated date of July 27, 2019 or the first published year of 2014. We want to be sure to implement the best way to ensure our errors are as accessible as possible for refreshable Braille displays.

Also is the above statement true for the "WAI-ARIA aria-describedby attribute"?

Is there a best practices resource for refreshable Braille displays. On of our employees uses one and I am disappointed to see how much is not accessible to her when using this AT in conjunction with JAWS. Much of what we struggle with is the conversion of document text into a readable braille format, but if some ARIA labels on webpages don't work with braille displays, how do we address accessibility needs of braille users. These issues are not really obvious in the WCAGs. I recently saw a W3C Working Draft dated 17 July 2020, titled Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities. Is there something like this in the works for braille users?

Thank you so much for your time and input.

Elizabeth A. Dunn
Audit/Training Manager

Office of Information Technology Services
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