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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Jan 3, 2013 12:32AM

Awesome, thanks.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Len Burns" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 10:50 PM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Facebook accessibility


> Hi,
>
> I do not know if Facebook is still on-list, but here is the URL to
> report an issue:
>
> http://www.facebook.com/accessibility
>
> Regards,
> -Len
> On 1/2/2013 10:38 PM, Bryan Garaventa wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Is the Facebook accessibility team still on this list? I've forgotten how
>> to get a hold of them otherwise.
>>
>> I've been noticing that, when arrowing down the page using JAWS in IE for
>> example, the message that is being read keeps shifting lines in the
>> Virtual Buffer, so that it may or may not actually be the desired
>> message. This is a pain, because it's very difficult to enter a comment
>> when you aren't certain which message you are activating the Comment
>> button on, and focus keeps getting moved around by itself.
>>
>> This is happening because something, perhaps a rotating ticker higher up
>> the DOM tree, keeps updating and changing the lines that are reflected in
>> the Virtual Buffer. However, I can't find where this updating area is, or
>> how to stop it.
>>
>> So if you guys are still here, can you shed some light on how to halt
>> this updating?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bryan
>> >> >> >>
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