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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Apr 5, 2012 8:05AM

Hi everyone

I've been looking at www.ruv.is (the webpage of the Icelandic National Radio).
It works very nicely with NVDA but Jaws (both 12 and 13) have huge
issues with the page, moving the focus all over the place.
The reason, as far as I can determine, is that an onClick event is
generated by JQuery to flip pictures on photo ribbons on the page
(there is nothing else in the way of automation, and the wave toolbar
does not bring anything up).
I need to somehow hide this activity from Jaws.
Would something like ARIA:Hidden do the trick here, or is a more
fundamental change necessary (I have examples of some excellently
accessible carousels availabe, but of course it is best to go the path
of fewest changes required).
Cheers
-B