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Re: JAWS and ARIA's application role

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From: Ney André de Mello Zunino
Date: Jul 18, 2011 5:27AM

On 06/07/2011 10:05, Ney André de Mello Zunino wrote:

> 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.

On 07/07/2011 14:19, Ney André de Mello Zunino wrote:

> HTML: http://pastebin.com/jqWarsKC
> CSS: http://pastebin.com/d2JAkuHx
> JS: http://pastebin.com/uBksPRpT
>
> Remember to name the files 'test.html', 'test.css' and 'test.js',
> respectivelly.

Hello.

Has anybody had a chance to try out the test files? I haven't still been
able to figure out the application="role" JAWS issue mentioned above.

Thank you,

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