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Re: Best way to "hide" an onClick event from screen reader?

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From: John Martyn DoItBlind.com
Date: Apr 5, 2012 9:48AM

Is it moving focus around the page or is it just speaking more information
that wanted?
John

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Subject: [WebAIM] Best way to "hide" an onClick event from screen reader?

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
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