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Re: Reg dropdownbuttons and screen readers.

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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Aug 17, 2012 4:20PM

Is this not accessible in IE? I'm trying to compare the two, but get the
following.

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0;
.NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR
3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
Timestamp: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:17:05 UTC


Message: Access is denied.

Line: 305
Char: 5
Code: 0
URI: http://livedocs.dojotoolkit.org/_static/dojo/dojo.js



----- Original Message -----
From: "Ramya Sethuraman" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 2:21 PM
Subject: [WebAIM] Reg dropdownbuttons and screen readers.


> Hi,
>
> I have come across this issue several times in the past and thought I'd
> get
> this clarified once and for all! The example I am looking at is the dijit
> dropdownbutton: http://livedocs.dojotoolkit.org/dijit/form/DropDownButton
>
> When I access the first example using just the keyboard and press enter on
> the hello dropdown button, I am able to use my up and down arrow keys to
> navigate through the menu items which is good. When I open the menu, focus
> automatically lands on the first menuitem.
>
> Now, when I test the same button on FF 14.0.1 and Jaws 13, I can press
> enter to launch the dropdown menu but now I am unable to use my arrow keys
> to navigate. I have to tab one more time for focus to land on the first
> menuitem and at that point, I can use my up/down arrow keys to navigate.
>
> Why is the behavior different when I use a screen reader? Is it because
> Jaws is capturing the up/down arrow keys? Do I need to set an aria-role to
> tell Jaws not to capture the up/down arrow keys? Thanks!
>
> Ramya
> > >