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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Jan 8, 2014 1:56PM

Hello:
We would like to give users of our campus accessible templates the
ability to use an expandable and collapsible content area. Attached is the
demo of what we have come up with so far. It works great in NVDA and not
so good in jaws.
The problem we have found in jaws is that jaws only indicates the
expansion happens the first time the expand is clicked. In fact if you go
back to the page a second time it won't say anything ever again. When this
first happened I thought I was losing my mind but I tested on another
computer and the same thing happened. My instinct is that jaws is the bad
player in this game. Can someone else confirm this and if anyone on this
list is on the jaws beta team could you file this as a bug. I am really
getting fed up with AT that does not implement standards appropriately.
It's hard enough to get developers to code to standers and then when the
AT does not work to the standers it's even harder. My new year's
resolution is to shame AT products that don't come up to the mark more
grin Lucy Lucia Greco
Web Access Analyst
IST-Campus Technology Services
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu