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From: deblist@suberic.net
Date: Nov 9, 2009 9:15PM

I've been trying to debug the WAI-ARIA alerts on a page I'm
writing and their interaction with JAWS 10 and Firefox 3.5.5. The
code all appeared to be reporting correctly, and JAWS was
definitely configured to be announcing live regions, but the page
doesn't announce any of the alerts. Finally, as a sanity check, I
just checked to make sure the test cases at
<http://wiki.codetalks.org/wiki/index.php/Set_of_ARIA_Test_Cases>;
worked -- and they didn't.

I understand those test cases were run against Firefox 3 beta,
but I don't see any indication in
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=343213&hide_resolved=1>
that a regression was introduced. Could this be a problem with my
configuration? Or is the JAWS/Firefox 3/WAI-ARIA interaction not
as stable as I thought it was? Or something else?

Thanks very much,

-deborah