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From: Ney André de Mello Zunino
Date: Jul 6, 2011 7:06AM

Hello.

Has anybody else had problems with JAWS not entering application mode
when the role="application" attribute/value pair is not set on the body
element, but in an inner container? I have a page which should work in
document mode until an ARIA widget receives focus. This ARIA widget is
within a container div with role="application" set. However, keystrokes
continue to be intercepted by the screen reader, instead of being left
to the application. Setting the role on the body element results in the
expected behavior.


DOESN'T WORK

<body>
...
<div role="application">
...ARIA widget...
</div>
...
</body>


WORKS

<body role="application">
...
...ARIA widget...
...
</body>


Thank you in advance,

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Ney André de Mello Zunino
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