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From: Humbert, Joseph A
Date: Aug 22, 2013 11:49AM

Hi Lucy,

There are probably JavaScript event handlers on high level (parent) container elements of the content. This would be found in the JavaScript files in the source not the HTML source. Visual Event (http://www.sprymedia.co.uk/article/visual+event+2) is a bookmarklet that may visually identify the effected regions and indicate where in the source code the offending JavaScript files are located. This tool is not very screen reading software friendly. Manually you could look at all the files attached to the HTML source and search for event handlers (e.g., ".click(function()" for jQuery). Hope this helps. Thankx.

Sincerely,

Joe

Joe Humbert, Accessibility Specialist
UITS Adaptive Technology and Accessibility Centers
Indiana University, Indianapolis and Bloomington
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Indianapolis, IN 46202
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-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Lucy Greco
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 1:27 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: [WebAIM] testing and Firefox versus IE

Hello:
I was just sent some simple pages to check and found something very strange. I started the testing and Firefox and was quite concerned because these pages were just simple text with a few links. However jaws continually read clickable throughout the page in Firefox and not at all in IE. From what I can tell there's nothing going on in the source code to do this. Any other testers out there got an idea. I can't share these pages as they are internal currently or I would. Thanks Lucy

Lucia Greco
Web Access Analyst
IST-Campus Technology Services
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
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