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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Mar 7, 2012 6:54PM

Check the source code Will. My gut says the form is basically not
coded correctly and IE is "helping you out."

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Ryan E. Benson



On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Will Grignon < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> [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
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
> http://www.mass.gov/itd
>
> -----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.
>
> -----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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