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From: Will Grignon
Date: Mar 6, 2012 6:09PM

Steve,

Thanks for the recommendation, but the cursor just sits there on the button.

I've alerted the site's developers...

Thanks All.
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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Steve Green
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 7:32 PM
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] buttons work in IE but not in Firefox

I have encountered a website where it was necessary to trigger an
onMouseover event before a button worked. I had to give focus to the
element, use Ctrl+Insert+Enter to trigger onMouseover, then press the Enter
key.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd

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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Will Grignon
Sent: 06 March 2012 21:19
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] buttons work in IE but not in Firefox

I'm sorry, all. It's a site that is under development and the pages that
house the buttons in question are only accessible via log-in.

I was just hoping that someone has experienced different results in FF and
IE re buttons.

BTW - by " don't work" I mean that when I hit Space Bar or Enter on these
buttons, nothing happens - the cursor just sits on the button and the site
does not open a new page...

Thanks. I'll work with the site's developers...


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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Bourne, Sarah
(ITD)
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 4:07 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] buttons work in IE but not in Firefox

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
Director of Assistive Technology &
Mass.Gov Chief Technology Strategist
Information Technology Division
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
1 Ashburton Pl. rm 1601 Boston MA 02108
617-626-4502
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http://www.mass.gov/itd

-----Original Message-----
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[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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