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

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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Jan 8, 2014 2:24PM

The script is missing a preventDefault() which may be contributing to the
problem. This should be added to prevent page refreshing whenever DOM level
dynamic content is rendered via a triggering element.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lucy Greco" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] a possible jaws bug and if it is can someone file it


> Great please do test and remember it works the first time you open the
> expand just not after that
>
> 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-----
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> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Birkir R.
> Gunnarsson
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 1:14 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] a possible jaws bug and if it is can someone file it
>
> 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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