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From: Bourne, Sarah (ITD)
Date: Mar 6, 2012 2:09PM

Will,

I have to resort to guessing here (can you give us a link?) but maybe they are using something proprietary, such as an Active X control, instead of a standard HTML form control.

sb

Sarah E. Bourne
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Mass.Gov Chief Technology Strategist
Information Technology Division
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Will Grignon
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 3:57 PM
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] buttons work in IE but not in Firefox

I'm using JAWS and I've used both the space bar and the enter key.

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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Ryan Hemphill
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 3:50 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] buttons work in IE but not in Firefox

Define 'work'?
Are you using ARIA?
A normal button?
Does it have the tabindex attribute?
Are you using JAWS and pressing the space bar or are you hitting enter/return?
Are you using a screen reader at all?

I agree with Tim, give us something to review at and I'll be happy to look it over.



On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Tim Arnold < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Will Grignon
> < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
> > Anyone know why buttons on a website would work in Internet Explorer
> > 8
> and
> > not in Firefox 8.1?
>
> Without a link to an example, I wouldn't know where to start.
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