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From: Ryan Hemphill
Date: May 8, 2012 11:56AM

Interesting point, Sarah - I'll include that in my research.

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Ryan Hemphill
< <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> Ugh, this is killing me.
>
> I was under the impression that I wasn't the only one noticing this, so it
> seems that I shot my mouth off - however, I have seen a multitude of
> occasions in my own work where the program was crashing from
> aria-labelledby, as there was nothing else that I changed to create a fix.
>
> I will research the exact cases where I see this happening, but I have run
> into this problem so many times it has become a broken record for me. Any
> time I crash JAWS/IE in Win7, it has ALWAYS been the existence of a
> focusable aria-labelledby attribute.
>
> I'll get back you on this. I'm sure I can track down an example - wouldn't
> be surprised if it is javascript related at this point...
>
> Ryan
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Steve Faulkner < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:
>
>> hi Ryan,
>>
>> you wrote:
>>
>> "Of
>> course, that attribute will kill the IE browser completely in Windows 7 -
>> and that testing has been very, very consistent. "
>>
>> can you provide more detail on this?
>>
>> regards
>> stevef
>
>


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