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Re: Reading OPTGROUP with JAWS

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: May 10, 2002 2:53PM

On 4/17/02 3:29 PM, Cohen, Lisa A. ( <EMAIL REMOVED> ) wrote:

> Andrew, I'm confused...
> Does JAWS say the group values (OPTGROUP) for you? Which keystrokes get him
> to move to (and say) another OPTGROUP?
> JAWS only says the group values if you include them as the content of the
> <option> tag. What I=B9ve always heard is that browsers that ignore optgroup
> will just read the <option> tag, so including the optgroup name redundantly is
> necessary. Browsers such as MacIE will use the label tag for the display and
> will not display the redundant information.
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> IE6 is half and half. It displays the optgroup name, but it doesn=B9t use the
> label for the <option>, so the group name is in bold at before the first item
> in the optgroup, but then each option also includes the optgroup name that was
> included for backward compatibility. If you are using the keyboard to access
> the combo box, the optgroup names are skipped in IE6.
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> Also, I am running IE 5.5 and it doesn't show the OPTGROUP at all... you see
> it in bold? Haven't tried 6.0 because most of my government users will not
> have it for a while.
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> My IE5.5 is tied up, so I can=B9t verify this, but I=B9m sure you=B9re right.
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> A correction to my last post =AD only Mac IE and IE6 are supporting optgroup as
> outlined above. The other browsers display adequate information if the
> optgroup name is used redundantly for backward compatibility.
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> Andrew
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