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Re: testing and Firefox versus IE

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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Aug 22, 2013 11:34AM

This happens when there is a click handler on a container element higher up
in the DOM tree.

This often happens within frameworks and libraries that assign placeholder
functions for customization, which is necessary to handle event bubbling.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lucy Greco" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 10:27 AM
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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> > >