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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Mar 6, 2012 2:39PM

Strange, taking it apart is probably the only solution then.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Grignon" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "'WebAIM Discussion List'" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] buttons work in IE but not in Firefox


> Bryan,
>
> Nope. The cursor just sits there.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Bryan Garaventa
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 4:16 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] buttons work in IE but not in Firefox
>
> I've seen something like this before.
>
> Try this:
> Tab to the button, press insert+3 to pass a keystroke through, and press
> the
> Enter key.
> Does it work then?
>
> If it does, then they are likely using a keypress handler to control the
> click, which JAWS doesn't recognize, you have to also include a click
> handler to make it work.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Will Grignon" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> To: "'WebAIM Discussion List'" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 12:57 PM
> 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.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>> [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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