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From: Sven Jenzer
Date: Apr 3, 2009 5:55AM

Hi All and Al

My question concerns the "same page link" spellng, which is in fact
irritating.
http://www.projectseven.com/products/tools/accordion2/accessible/jaws-test/

What can we recommend to developpers asking us?

Have you tested yet the linked Header with empty href="" ?

Ist it then in fact no more spelled by Jaws?

Would the JavaScript-Accordion-Function still work?


thnx a lot for your answers and best regards

Sven Jenzer
Swiss Foundation Access for all


Al Sparber schrieb:
> Hi Priti,
>
> Thanks for the feedback. We thought about the "same page link" but in our
> limited testing, users didn't seem to be confused. The panel triggers are
> technically named anchor links that point to the associated panel content.
> Allowing the triggers to be links also serves to make panel access more
> naturally accessible to people using keyboard or alternative pointing
> devices.
>
> Setting the href value to empty (href=""), however, retains the link
> functionality and seems to cause JAWS to not recite "same page link". Would
> that help, in your opinion?
>
>