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Re: jaws and aria - updating the cache

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From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Jul 17, 2011 7:00AM

Adam,
Well a simple test is: do JAWS key + Esc. Does that update ARIA
properties on the page? If it does then you might still need to do the
hidden field trick.
A user does not know if the page is using ARIA or Web 2 features etc.
So when nothing seems to happen after activating a UIE, one might want
to do an explicit refresh as stated above.
Sailesh

On 7/17/11, adam solomon < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Aria support involves dynamically changing properties in a widget via
> javascript. I remember way back when that Jaws didn't always update its
> cached view of the dom every time javascript made changes. For instance,
> sending focus to a place on the page which had been hidden with display:none
> possibly involved updating a hidden field just so that jaws would know that
> it has to update its cached view of the page. Do we still have this problem
> with Jaws 11+, in that it won't immediately recognize my updated aria
> properties and states, or has that problem been addressed?
> Thank you in advance for all responses.
>
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> adam solomon
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