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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 4:56PM

I see what you mean. I agree that the state should be conveyed when the
focused element changes programmatically.

The problem is that this should only happen when the state changes on the
element that currently has focus. Or in JAWS' case, the element that sounds
like it has focus where the Virtual Cursor is pointing.

This is easier to accomplish in NVDA, because as you arrow down the page in
Browse Mode, everything that you hear is given focus.

In JAWS though, focus may be on another element on the page, and as you
arrow down the page, keyboard focus is not moved to the element you are
hearing.

It should be possible for FS to do it, but they will need to make sure that
when state changes on other elements on the page as part of a configuration
script for instance, that all of their states are not automatically
announced at the same time as well, which would sort of defeat the purpose.



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From: "Lucy Greco" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] a possible jaws bug and if it is can someone file it


> Ok I just tested in i.e. 10 and found a different but similar problem.
> When I tab to the link and click it will speak the state change but if I
> click it again it does not tell me that the state changed back. We want
> the link to change whenever the user clicks it and it does do so but jaws
> needs to say witch state it is currently in.
> And if I keep clicking it never tells me that the state changes. The
> difference in i.e. to ff is that I can tab away and back again and it
> will tell me once again the state change but only the first state change
> to get it to tell me I can't click the link without tabbing away from the
> link.
> Also I think it's not controllable but in i.e. the user does not have any
> way to go to the focused text that has been opened like in Firefox I think
> that's a known jaws thing.
>
> 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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