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From: David Farough
Date: Aug 22, 2013 12:23PM

Hi Lucy:
this is a Jaws setting which can be modified by the user.
Unfortunately most users will be unaware of this or where to find the
setting. I do not know why this does not occur with Internet explorer,
but it may be due to different jaws scripts being used for the different
browsers. it might also be due to differences in the information
provided to JAWS by the browser.

You can change the way Jaws handles such information by doing the
following.

1. press Jawskey (either insert or capslock) plus 6 on the top row of
numbers on the keyboard (not 6 on the number pad) to open settings
centre.
2. type Speech in the search box and then arrow down to "speech and
sound schemes"
3. press right arrow to open and then arrow down to modify schemes and
press space.

Here you will be able to view available schemes and modify any number
of settings that will dictate how Jaws responds to different controls
web content etc.

activate the modify scheme button to modify settings in the active
speech and sound scheme.

This opens a multi tab dialogue which provides settings available for
various content types.

For your purposes look at the HTML tab. particularly at "onclick".

Options are:
designate a sound to be played when this gains focus;
speak the attribute and then Jaws says "clickable" or any other text
you prefer;
Ignore to provide no feedback;

This is quite a complex feature and is not easily discoverable. There
is an entire module dedicated to the speech and sounds manager in the
training material provided by Freedom Scientific. It is my experience
that most people are not aware of how this can be used to enhance their
user experience. To obtain more information on this feature , go to the
Jaws help menu and then select training. then select Speech and sounds
manager from the list of files available. If this is not installed on
your machine, it will be downloaded and installed automatically.


David Farough
Application Accessibility Coordinator/coordonateur de l'accessibilité
Information Technology Services Directorate /
Direction des services d'information technologiques
Public Service Commission / Commission de la fonction publique
Email / Courriel: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Tel. / Tél: (613) 992-2779