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Re: jaws, firefox, & display:none & display:block

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From: Pratik Patel
Date: Mar 5, 2010 7:09AM

Hello,

Jennison Mark Asuncion wrote:


Is this expected behavior with JAWS in Firefox when implementing
display:none and display:block? Is there a work-around? If it is a bug,
does this clear up in later versions of JAWS?

P: This is indeed a bug in JAWS that has been reported several times since
JAWS 10.x. This was first noticed with Firefox 2. I'm afraid JAWS 11 does
nothing to solve this issue. If anyone else has a different experience, I'd
love to see an example. There are several times when JAWS+escape has to be
used to ensure that the virtual buffer is refreshed-that JAWS realizes that
the buffer is refreshed to be more precise. Overall though, Firefox
provides a far superior experience with Ajaxy sites with JAWS than does IE.
See facebook and Gmail as examples. I have recently encountered some
strange sites -especially those developed with asp.net -that behave better
with JAWS 10 and 9 and IE 7 and 8 and Firefox 3.5. There seems to be some
regression in JAWS 11. But, as you know, I have quite a few issues with
JAWS 11; I may not be the most objective voice when it comes to this
particular gem from Freedomscientific.

Pratik