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Re: change in forms mode behaviour in JAWS 12

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From: Andrews, David B (DEED)
Date: Dec 12, 2011 2:18PM

The original message said "JAWS 12," and JAWS 13 is already out, and has been for a couple months. So, the question is "does this behavior happen in JAWS 13 as well?"

Dave



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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Ryan Hemphill
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 2:56 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] change in forms mode behaviour in JAWS 12

Found it.

Here's what you need to do. For whatever reason, the JAWS bug is because the forms content and the rest of your text are in the same container. I managed to stop this from happening by separating them into different containers altogether. I would put your heading in one container and the form in another. Do not let them be on the same level of the DOM and the problem should stop.

<div id="container1">
<h1>Heading</h1>
and Content
</div>
<div id="morecontent">More content</div> <div id="form-container">
<form></form>
</div>

In response to Jared, you're right - the FS team should be resolving this.

I have also found that unless someone tries their hand at a hack, the real source of the problem remains unknown in many cases, esp when it comes to screen readers. While getting the bugs fixed is good, I can't wait for FS to resolve it in their next release or their update of the current version.

Without at least seeing a hack that resolves the problem, it takes longer to figure out where to look for the source of the issue. I suspect they already have their hands full. I guess my point is, if they know the hack, they at least have some idea of where to look.

Ryan



On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Jared Smith < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Ryan Hemphill wrote:
>
> > I'm going to hammer away at this a little more. No promises, mind
> > you - but with a little luck I may figure out how to resolve this.
>
> How about reporting this to Freedom Scientific so they can fix this
> bug? Nobody from FS is on this list (that I'm aware of). It seems a
> better solution to fix at the source rather than suggesting hacks and
> settings to work around the bug.
>
> Jared
>