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From: ckrugman
Date: Feb 6, 2011 5:45AM

JAWS versions will read items in a dropdown menu using a particular command
"alt down arrow" in most cases.
Chuck
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From: "Jordan, Courtney" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] table paging


> That's certainly a lot of pages! Is there any way that you can break it
> up into categories? Even as a sighted user, I would be frustrated
> looking through 500 options in a drop-down list. That is assuming that I
> even knew what the particular title of the page was. We can't expect
> people to remember the title of every page. People can generally hold
> about 5-7 or fewer items in memory. From my experience using JAWS 9, I
> couldn't get the screen reader to "read" any items under the first one.
> It would automatically trigger the first one and I would never get to
> the others. Including a button avoided that issue as it didn't trigger a
> JavaScript event from the drop-down selection itself, but from the
> clicking of the button.
>
> Good luck!
> Courtney Jordan
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