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From: Dominic Capuano (gmail)
Date: Sep 14, 2016 12:45PM

Nick;

Are you able to remove the event from the upper level div?

Dominic Capuano
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-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Allan [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 11:59 PM
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Subject: [WebAIM] screen reader announcing clickable

Hi all
I'm doing some testing on a web page where a section has paragraphs of text
that all announce clickable when you arrow through it using jaws.
There is a div a few levels up in the dom that has a click event attached to
it according to firebug in firefox.
I assume this is why the text is saying clickable. Is there any method to
stop a screen reader announcing clickable other than verbosity settings in
the screen reader? clicking on the text doesn't actually do anything.

Any suggestions would be welcome.




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