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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Oct 4, 2011 10:33AM

I am evaluating an ASP.Net app, and noticed all of the links are:
<a href="javascript:doPostBack(...)">Blah</a>

While I don't know why it is done like this, I noticed when navigating
to a link using just the keyboard, the browser thinks it is a dead
link. However if I click or use JAWS on the link, it correctly goes to
the destination. Does anybody knows why this is? Is there an easy fix,
or does the app have to be redone?

I am not the dev, and it is an internal app, so I can't give a link.

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Ryan E. Benson