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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Aug 22, 2013 3:18PM

Have you tested it using the JAWS build released today? I heard that this
was just fixed.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lucy Greco" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] testing and Firefox versus IE


> These are all leads I will follow each of them and get back to you when I
> find out what it was happening in this case thanks to all of you
>
> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Birkir R.
> Gunnarsson
> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 11:21 AM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] testing and Firefox versus IE
>
> 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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