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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
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Cohen, Lisa A. [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 11:38 AM
>> To: WebAIM forum ( <EMAIL REMOVED> )
>> Subject: Reading OPTGROUP with JAWS
>>=20
>>=20
>> Hello,=20
>> (Apologies for cross-posting... desperately need an answer!)
>> I need to code a very long listbox in an HTML form. The HTML 4 spec shows an
>> example of using OPTGROUP to group OPTIONS within SELECT tags. But this
>> does not appear to work with JAWS (nor does IE 5.5 do anything with
>> OPTGROUP).
>>=20

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