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fix(input): required asterisk being read out by screen readers #6277

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@crisbeto crisbeto commented Aug 4, 2017

Fixes the asterisk that gets added after a required input being read out by screen readers.

Note: some alternate approaches I tried was to render it using ::after and speak: none, as well as using role="presentation", but this seems to be the only way to get NVDA not to read it out.

Fixes the asterisk that gets added after a required input being read out by screen readers.
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@tinayuangao tinayuangao merged commit 0850981 into angular:master Aug 4, 2017
crisbeto added a commit to crisbeto/material2 that referenced this pull request Aug 5, 2017
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Fixes the asterisk that gets added after a required input being read out by screen readers.
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