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Re: please test expanding content areas

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From: Angela French
Date: Feb 7, 2012 3:18PM

Patrick,
I'm a little confused about your statement "...have to explore below the heading on your own". Wouldn't you normally look beyond a heading to see the subsequent content regardless of whether it was initially hidden? What am I missing?

Any ideas why JAWS would not announce such a heading as "clickable" since it is wrapped in an anchor tag? Is it because there is no value for the href attribute?

Angela

>
>Yes, using Jaws (13) & NVDA (2011), the links work* in both Firefox & IE.
>
>* The additional content is successfully expanded & collapsed by pressing
>the Enter key on the two headings. However, none of the screenreader-
>browser combinations announces any change (you have to explore below the
>heading on your own. I might not have known to do this without the
>explanation in your email ahead of time.) Only
>NVDA+Firefox announces that the heading/link is "clickable", which
>gives a sense that it isn't a standard hyperlink.
>
>Patrick
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