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Re: JAWS repeats itself on checkboxes and radio buttons

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From: Patrick Burke
Date: Jun 21, 2010 1:57PM

This is (fairly) well-known, but so far not acted upon by Freedom Scientific.

Jaws with IE8 behaves correctly in this same scenario.

Patrick

At 11:52 AM 6/21/2010, Marco Maertens wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm running into a problem where JAWS 11 (both 32- and 64-bit
>versions) with Firefox 3.6.3 consistently reads out properly coded
>radio buttons and check boxes twice.
>
>For instance, if you try the radio buttons demonstrated on the
>WebAIM techniques page at this address:
>
>http://www.webaim.org/techniques/forms/controls
>
>The page (visually) shows something like this:
>
>Choose a shipping method:
>(radio button) Overnight
>(radio button) Two day
>(radio button) Ground
>
>... but JAWS reads the following:
>
>Choose a shipping message colon
>Choose a shipping message colon
>radio button not checked overnight overnight
>radio button not checked two day two day
>radio button not checked ground ground
>
>I've confirmed and reproduced this behavior on a rather complicated
>site we're working on for a client, on a super-simple test page, on
>eBay.com, and on WebAIM.org (as shown above). The problem does not
>occur when using IE7 (I have not yet tested IE8).
>
>The JAWS data sheet says it works with Firefox. It looks to me like
>a compatibility problem between JAWS and Firefox. But this seems
>like a rather big problem. Is anyone else familiar with this? I've
>searched around and haven't found much of anything. Our client is
>asking why the page is read out so strangely in JAWS.
>
>Thanks in advance for insights or input!
>
>-Marco.
>
>Marco Maertens
>Developer and Web Accessibility Specialist
>Empathy Lab
>610-572-2371
>


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