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From: Michael.Moore@dars.state.tx.us
Date: Jun 9, 2011 6:33AM

One additional tidbit, there is a bug in JFW 11-12 that causes JAWS not to read the F1 help text in word forms. The status bar help text is limited to 128 characters (Microsoft design). In addition to not reading the F1 help, after encountering a legacy form field with F1 help, JAWS 11 and 12 stop reading the status bar text until you move backward in the form and/or hit JAWSkey+esc. The issue is not present in JFW 9 and we have not looked at the problem in JFW 10. Freedom Scientific is aware of the problem we are anticipating a patch for JFW 12 or for the problem to be resolved in JFW 13.

Michael Moore

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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Debbie Malone
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 6:55 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] MSWord forms accessibility

I didn't realize that the content controls were not accessible. I don't use JAWS
myself, but all the articles I read said to use them. I mistakingly assumed that
the ToolTip did not work. I will definitely change them over to legacy controls.
Thanks for the info.

Debbie Malone