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Re: a possible jaws bug and if it is can someone file it

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jan 8, 2014 2:13PM

Lucy

I am able to use Jaws reliably on this demo page I came up with with
Detlev Fisher, one that is on his site at:
http://www.3needs.org/en/testing/code/aria-expanded.html#

I can check the demo later on, and if this is a bug I would be happy
to help you file it. I am on the Jaws beta team, though I am not very
active.


On 1/8/14, Lucy Greco < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Sorry about that here is the demo
>
> Lucia Greco
> Web Access Analyst
> IST-Campus Technology Services
> University of California, Berkeley
> (510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
> http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lucy Greco [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 12:56 PM
> To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
> Subject: a possible jaws bug and if it is can someone file it
>
> 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
>


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