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From: Ramya Sethuraman
Date: Jan 3, 2013 12:34PM

Bryan

Just want to make sure I understand the problem correctly. Is this what you
are experiencing?

1/ You are using down arrow key to read the newsfeed with Jaws on IE
2/ Jaws announces a news story but when you arrow down, instead of reading
the elements after the news story like the like, comment buttons, it reads
something else? At this point the virtual buffer and what's on screen is
out of sync -- did I get that right?
3/ Does this start happening when Jaws reads a particular element? Or when
you take a particular action?
4/ Does this happen if you navigate through tabs also?

Thanks,
Ramya
(Facebook Accessibility)



On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Bryan Garaventa <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > 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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