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Re: JAWS and ARIA's application role

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From: Donald Evans
Date: Jul 6, 2011 7:12AM

I have had the same experience as you and will be very interested to see
other comments.

2011/7/6 Ney André de Mello Zunino < <EMAIL REMOVED> >

> 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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