error messages, accessibility and jaws
Good afternoon,
I need some advise from someone who has experience with jaws and error messages on required fields..
I've attached a screenshot of a Bell page which has mandatory fields.
The errors are shown in red. When jaws the screen reader reads the errors however the errors are read after the input control because the errors are below the control.
My manager has hinted that this project simply does not have a big enough budget to go into each of our pages and move the error messages from the bottom to the top of the input control.
is there any solution I can implement which will make jaws read the error message before the input control?
I thank you for your time and effort
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Hi OakvilleWork and welcome to the forum. 
I'm not a JAWS expert so I've sent out a Tweet asking for help from our accessibility followers.
One thing does occur to me however. It would be really helpful if you could post a link to an HTML page. Being able to view the source code would help a lot.
Hope you get a response soon.
Cheers!
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