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From: Donald Evans
Date: Sep 16, 2011 8:45AM

I have not seen that. Good catch!

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Tim Harshbarger <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> We have run into an interesting bug and are wondering if anyone else has
> encountered it. It has to do with hiding region landmarks in Internet
> Explorer 8. IN this situation, we were using the most current version of
> JAWS, though my colleague reports that she had the same results with NVDA.
>
> With all these examples, assume that the "hidden" class is set up like
> this:
> .hidden {
> Display: none;
> }
>
> If you have html like this...
>
> <body>
> <h1>Example of a Hidden Region Landmark</h1>
> <div role="region" title="Example" class="hidden">
> <p>This is an example.</p>
> </div>
> </body>
> JAWS will read the heading, but ignore the region landmark and its
> contents-just what you think it should do.
>
> However, if you do something like this...
> <body>
> <h1>Example of a Hidden Region Landmark</h1>
> <div role="region" title="Example" class="hidden">
> <p>This is an example.</p>
> </div>
> <div role="region" title="Second Example">
> <p>This is the second example.</p>
> </div>
> </body>
> JAWS will now read the first region landmark though it will not read any of
> the contents-exactly what I do not want it to do.
>
> Basically, the behavior seems to be that a hidden region landmark will only
> be ignored if it is the last child of the body element.
>
> Has anyone else run into this behavior? We do not see this in FireFox.
> Unfortunately, we can't test with IE9 at the moment.
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
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