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From: Michael Moore
Date: Aug 23, 2013 10:22AM

Here is an except from an email that Eric Damery sent to the JAWS users
list:

"Mozilla Firefox
*Addressed a customer reported issue where JAWS was saying "clickable" at
the end of each line while reading.
*Improved navigating tree views on Web pages and announcing the expanded
and collapsed state of items."

The update that you need is JAWS 14.0.6004. I have been running it for
about a day and it seems to be working fine. The previous update seemed a
little buggy to me.


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Bryan Garaventa <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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
> >>> > >>> > >>> > >>
> >> > >> > >> > >>
> > > > > > > > > > > > >
> > > >