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Re: JAWS reading headings that break twice

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From: Jonathan Metz
Date: Jul 11, 2013 9:11AM

Thanks,

This is all really useful information.

Thanks!

Jonathan




On 7/11/13 10:19 AM, "Birkir R. Gunnarsson" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

>Morning
>
>Jaws announces headings containing <br> tags as a single line when
>navigating by the "h" key or using the headings list (JawsKey-F6).
>Only while navigating the virtual buffer with the arrow keys, does
>Jaws read the individual lines inside the heading.
>(tested with Jaws14 and IE10/FF21).
>This behavior makes sense to me, but what makes sense to me is not
>always what makes sense to everyone else *grin*.
>-Birkir
>Birkir Gunnarsson
>Accessibility Subject Matter Expert | Deque Systems
>
>On 7/11/13, Andrew Kirkpatrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> I was asked this recently and found that JAWS does this when reading
>> line-by-line only. Ins+F6 and using the heading keys results in the
>>correct
>> behavior.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> AWK
>>
>> Andrew Kirkpatrick
>> Group Product Manager, Accessibility
>> Adobe Systems
>>
>> <EMAIL REMOVED>
>> http://twitter.com/awkawk
>> http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility
>>
>>
>>