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Re: IE 9 Dynamic Forms issue with JAWS 13 & 14

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From: Trafford, Logan
Date: Nov 7, 2012 7:39AM

For clarification, is this limited to HTML forms, PDF or both?

Logan
From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [ <EMAIL REMOVED> ] on behalf of Birkir R. Gunnarsson [ <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 9:37 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] IE 9 Dynamic Forms issue with JAWS 13 & 14

Mike

I will look for examples, I have reported similar problems to FS.
One thing that I noticed. This consistently happens to me when Outlook
(2010) is open, it seems to somehow affect Jaws virtual buffer. Is
there any chance you are only experiencing these issue with Outlook
open on the same machineÐ
I doubt it, but since this seems relevant I wanted to point it out.
Cheers
öB

On 11/7/12, Mike Moore < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> We are attempting to understand an issue that occurs in IE 9 when using JAWS
> 13 and 14 to complete dynamic forms. We have confirmed that this issue does
> not happen with FF 15.
>
> The problem occurs when new form fields are added to a page using
> JavaScript. JAWS will not correctly report the labels for the form fields
> even though the form fields are properly labeled with the label element and
> matching for and id attributes. This happens with all types of form
> controls. The problem is even more pronounced in select elements that are
> dynamically populated. JAWS does not correctly report the options.
>
> We have a work around but it dramatically impacts the productivity of JAWS
> users. Refreshing the JAWS buffer with JAWSkey+esc will return correct
> identification of the form labels and option contents. We are working with
> Freedom Scientific to resolve the issue but the applications that are
> causing issues are behind a firewall and we cannot grant the technicians at
> Freedom Scientific access to the applications for testing. I am hoping that
> someone on this list can point me to a public facing application where the
> same problem exists so that I can share the URL with the folks at Freedom
> Scientific.
>
> Sent from my iPad
> Mike
> > > >
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