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Re: JAWS repeats itself on checkboxes and radio buttons

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From: David Farough
Date: Jun 21, 2010 2:27PM

I see this also in earlier versions of Firefox. This only happens
though when arrowing through the document. if you use tab or press "R"
to move to each of the radio buttons the label is read only once.

David Farough
Application Accessibility Coordinator/coordonateur de l'accessibilité
Information Technology Services Directorate /
Direction des services d'information technologiques
Public Service Commission / Commission de la fonction publique
Email / Courriel: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Tel. / Tél: (613) 992-2779

>>> Patrick Burke < <EMAIL REMOVED> > 02:57 PM Monday, June 21, 2010 >>>
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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