[Vuejs]-How can I determine the order in which text is read by a screen reader?

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It gets read in source order. You can get around it a little bit by styling them to appear in a different order:

.checkbox {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: row-reverse;
  justify-content: start;
}
<div class="checkbox">
  <div class="number">012345678</div>
  <div class="source">telephone number</div>
</div>
👤zero298

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There are various aria- attributes that can be used for such purposes.

There is for example the aria-labelledby attribute that you can use to tell which element should be the label for another element.

<div class="checkbox">
  <div class="number" aria-labelledby="phone-number-label">012345678</div>
  <div class="source" id="phone-number-label">telephone number</div>
</div>
👤t.niese

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You can use aria-flowto attribute: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/Attributes/aria-flowto

With that You can set custom reading order of html sections.

Update: I found out that aria-flowto is yet not supported by most of the screen readers. For now JAWS does support it, but NVDA does not. Take a look here: https://www.digitala11y.com/aria-flowto-properties/

👤M. Ryznar

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