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Re: Another example of role="alert" not being read by NVDA

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From: Susan Grossman
Date: May 16, 2013 2:54PM

We are lucky to have a skilled, good natured JAWS user who can test and do
screen shares - and give me pointers without laughing at me too much. But
I'm a contractor and don't always have that luxury.

When I test, I keep the short-keys handy, turn off my monitor, set my mouse
aside and test things like link lists or navigating by headings mostly.
Of course I do know what the pages look like. Some things you just have to
listen to - there may be odd code you don't see that JAWS will read that
you'll have to track down.

Learned to keep JAWS default. Not everyone turns on title tags, etc. A lot
of users do customize, but the variance is pretty high, so default is best.

A lot of the testing is done by looking at source code, running validators
(1st rule is valid HTML, and browser tools - the table and aria views are
nice. Also turn off styles to see reading order, tab through, etc.

And some things you can't find with a screen reader. For instance, you can
get into some modals in JAWS that you can't get in with just a keyboard.
Tabbing order may be set and not follow reading order, color contrast may
be incorrect for the font size, and so forth.


Susan


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Steve Green <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> As far as I am aware JAWS has always shipped with a printed manual and a
> cassette tape as well as the Braille manual - it certainly has in every
> version we have bought since version 7. Of course I have no idea if the
> printed version is the same as the Braille one.
>
> Steve Green
>
>