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Re: jaws and aria - updating the cache

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From: adam solomon
Date: Jul 19, 2011 5:06AM

I can't get Jaws to read out the activedescendant at all - even after key +
esc. In the following combox example:
http://test.cita.illinois.edu/aria/combobox/combobox3.php Jaws also didn't
read out the active descendant, and I know that on that site they coded
according to the aria standard. What am I missing?

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Sailesh Panchang <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > --
> > adam solomon
> > linkedin <http://il.linkedin.com/pub/adam-solomon/24/449/a4>;
> > blogix <http://adam.blogix.co.il/>;
> >