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Re: What makes screen-readers say "clickable"?

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From: Steve Faulkner
Date: Apr 7, 2015 7:23AM

related twitter threads may be of interest:

https://twitter.com/vick08/status/584829902190292993
https://twitter.com/vick08/status/584221768740577280

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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>;

On 7 April 2015 at 12:14, Carin Headrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi. I don't know if this is readily discoverable, but I figured I'd ask.
>
> So many times, JAWS or NVDA will come upon an element and say it's
> clickable when there is nothing clickable about it. What exactly is it
> picking up on? Are they both picking up on the same thing, or do they each
> have their own set of criteria for saying something is clickable?
>
> If anybody has any ideas, that would be awesome.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carin
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