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Re: Need to know if this code snippet is accessible

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From: ckrugman
Date: Jun 18, 2010 11:27PM

Hi Angela,
I'm behind in going through emails this week. I just went back to the web
page and the problem is that JAWS isn't identifying any actual links.
Therefore, nothing happens when I click on anything on the page. Using JAWS
11 withIE8 and Windows Vista.
Chuck
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From: "Angela French" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "'WebAIM Discussion List'" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Need to know if this code snippet is accessible


> Chuck, Thank you for testing. Although I don't have the new code snippet
> up on my test site, I ended up wrapping an anchor tag around the "read
> description" text so that it is actionable. I can now tab to it and use
> my Enter key to expand the content. Would this make it accessible now by
> a JAWS user?
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