How can I make screen reader NVDA reads ENTER key when press it on listitem (ARIA)

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I'm trying since yesterday to make it work, but i can't.
The problem is: I have a list of items that you can tab and select one of them with ENTER key, but the ScreenReader doesn't read anything when you press ENTER key to the selected item.

This is the piece of code that i'm trying to fix

<div class="SelectedNames"> <ol> <li ng-repeat="name in names" ng-class"isSingleNameSelected(name) == true ? 'selected' : no-selected'" ng-click="verifySelected(name)"> <a href="%" class="nameTitle> {{ item.name }}</a>

NOTE: you can only modify the part, don't need to touch the rest

I don't mind if you can show me another way without aria to do this. I only need it to works when you press enter to an item in the listitem
I will apreciate if someone can discover how to fix it, because i can't. Thank you

What I have tried:

I tried many things, aria-selected="false" (which only works with buttons, but i'm trying to do this with <a>, so it doesn't work), javascript, aria-atomic="true" but i can't make it work with this, etc....

Posted 22-Apr-21 6:32am

Pony 2021

Updated 30-Jul-23 19:54pm

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Member 16013848 · Answer 1 · 2023-05-24T20:26:00

I have faced similar kind of problem with NVDA screen reader, when you press enter, its not going to <h2> header tag so after placing the <div> inside <li> tag then it is reading nvda my headers
Please place

tag before tag.

eg:

My code not before fix:

HTML

</a><ol><a>
</a><li><a> </a><a href="#section-1"> Section-1</a>  </li>
<li> <a href="#section-2"> Section-2</a>  </li>
</ol>

After fix code, works well with JAWS and NVDA

HTML

<ol>
<li><div> <a href="#section-1"> Section-1</a> </div> </li>
<li><div> <a href="#section-2"> Section-2</a> </div> </li>
</ol>

<h2 id="section-1"> My Header 1</h2>
<p> .... </p> 

<h2 id="section-2"> My Header 2</h2> 
<p> .... </p>

refer: An example of how to create an anchor link to jump to a specific part of a page[^]