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Re: JAWS Accordion test

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From: Al Sparber
Date: Apr 3, 2009 9:40AM

Hi Sven,

It will work with an empty href attribute and still maintain operability for
keyboard users.
http://www.projectseven.com/products/tools/accordion2/accessible/jaws-test/href-empty.htm

The primary reason for the anchor is that folks who use the tool be be able
to separate the headings from content panels, in which case an anchor from
the heading to its relevant content would be appropriate. In that scenario,
of course, the script would be tweaked to return the link true.





From: "Sven Jenzer" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >


> 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?