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Re: How to generate automatically accessible footnotesusing ARIA

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From: Jim Allan
Date: Nov 9, 2011 12:15PM

also, at least with JAWS you can activate something with space, enter, and
leftmouse click on the number pad (desktop keyboard)

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Jim Allan < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Jaws or screenreader keyboard action/behavior is different from browser
> keyboard behavior. It needs to work both places to ensure access for
> screenreader users and all those users who just use the keyboard without a
> screenreader.
>
> Look forward to testing the updated version
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Bryan Garaventa <
> <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> Good catch, thanks, I'll addd this tonight as well.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jim Allan" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>> To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 8:26 AM
>> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] How to generate automatically accessible
>> footnotesusing ARIA
>>
>>
>> > Small css issue, the mouse cursor should change to a pointer (hand) to
>> > indicate that the item is clickable.
>> >
>> > On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:58 AM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> I wrote;
>> >>
>> >> > does the extensiondo a better job with understanding way areas in the
>> >> browser does
>> >>
>> >> Er, sorry. Usually I am better about proofreading dictation
>> >> errors befor I send my e-mails. This should have been me asking
>> >> if the extension does a better job understanding WAI-ARIA then
>> >> the browser does.
>> >>
>> >> -Deborah
>> >>