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RE: Reading OPTGROUP with JAWS

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From: Dos Santos, Fernando
Date: Apr 18, 2002 6:28AM

Hey all,

Optgroup is handled by IE 5.X on the Macintosh platform as well, but that
really is of no concern when speaking in respect to JAWS.

I've found that JAWS does handle OPTGROUP, in that it will read off the
items in a the listing. Are you looking for JAWS to make associations? That
will not happen, sad to say.

fernando

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Bohman [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 2:05 PM
To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Subject: RE: Reading OPTGROUP with JAWS


The only technology that I'm aware of that supports optgroup is Netscape
6.x. I wish others did, but I don't think they do. Maybe the screen reader
Emacspeak for Unix/Linux does, but I'm not familiar enough with it to know.
Emacspeak has support for everything it seems, so I wouldn't be surprised if
it supports this feature.

Paul Bohman
Technology Coordinator
WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind)
www.webaim.org
Center for Persons with Disabilities
www.cpd.usu.edu
Utah State University
www.usu.edu




-----Original Message-----
From: Cohen, Lisa A. [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 11:38 AM
To: WebAIM forum ( <EMAIL REMOVED> )
Subject: Reading OPTGROUP with JAWS



Hello,
(Apologies for cross-posting... desperately need an answer!)
I need to code a very long listbox in an HTML form. The HTML 4 spec shows
an example of using OPTGROUP to group OPTIONS within SELECT tags. But this
does not appear to work with JAWS (nor does IE 5.5 do anything with
OPTGROUP).

D