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

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Apr 5, 2012 12:17PM

Hi

It is actually moving the Jaws focus around the page.
If you have Jaws on a machine and go to the main landmark for
instance, then leave it there for a few seconds, the Jaws cursor keeps
moving up. If you use tab to get to a link from that place, and then
you hit tab again, you end up stuck on the same link.
It is clearly messing with the Jaws focus, oddly enough not with NVDA
(I left all default settings for web browsing in Jaws, I know I can
fix it on my machine by disabling page refreshes, I have tested that,
but most users don't know that they need to do that).
Cheers
-B

On 4/5/12, John Martyn DoItBlind.com < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Is it moving focus around the page or is it just speaking more information
> that wanted?
> John
>
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> Gunnarsson
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> Subject: [WebAIM] Best way to "hide" an onClick event from screen reader?
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> 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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