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Re: Reading OPTGROUP with JAWS

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: May 10, 2002 2:41PM

Can you define =B3support=B2 in this case? Netscape 4.7, Opera 5, IE5.5 & 6,
and MacIE5& 5.1 (undoubtedly there are others, these are the ones I checked)
all support optgroup. I=B9ve attached a sample file. When viewing this
example in Ie, JAWS reads the options fine.

Mac IE does what I imagine people consider =B3supporting=B2 optgroup. When the
combo box is opened, four items appear, some with sub-menus. Very clean
visually. =20

Win IE makes the optgroup name bold and not selectable in its
implementation. A user with a screen reader will hear the optgroup name for
each sub-item, but the information is available. It would be great if
screen readers supported an auitory experience similar to the visual
experience in MacIE.

AWK

On 4/17/02 2:04 PM, Paul Bohman ( <EMAIL REMOVED> ) wrote:

> The only technology that I'm aware of that supports optgroup is Netscape 6.x.
> I wish others did, but I don't think they do. Maybe the screen reader
> Emacspeak for Unix/Linux does, but I'm not familiar enough with it to know.
> Emacspeak has support for everything it seems, so I wouldn't be surprised if
> it supports this feature.
> =20
>=20
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