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Re: JAWS and ARIA's application role

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From: Pratik Patel
Date: Jul 6, 2011 10:30AM

Can you provide information about the browser in which you tested this? With
so many recent changes to browsers, please also provide the version number.
What version of JAWS?

Regards,

Pratik


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Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 9:08 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] JAWS and ARIA's application role

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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