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

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From: E.J. Zufelt
Date: Mar 5, 2010 7:33AM

Good morning,

After reading Pratik's message I went back and tested this behaviour. I thought that it had been corrected in JAWS 11, but clearly not in all situations. A good place to test this functionality is on the jQury hide() API page at http://api.jquery.com/hide/

There are a lot of headings on this page, multiple headings contain the text "Demo". The fourth heading which contains the text "Demo" is a demo of the functionality with two buttons, one labeled Hide and one labeled Show. After activating Hide I had to refresh the virtual buffer to get the paragraph of text which comes after the buttons to be hidden in the JAWS virtual buffer.

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On 2010-03-05, at 8:10 AM, Pratik Patel wrote:

> 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
>
>
>