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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Aug 22, 2013 12:20PM

Jaws seems to incorrectly interpret any content that sits inside a div
(even when it is just a div with a CSS class assigned to it for layout
purposes) as "clickable" in Firefox.
It does not do this in IE.
I am going to create an issue in the FS beta tester track (if one does
not exist already).
Cheers
-B
Birkir Gunnarsson
Accessibility Subject Matter Expert | Deque Systems

On 8/22/13, Bryan Garaventa < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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
>> Follow me on twitter @accessaces
>> >> >> >
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