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From: David Farough
Date: May 1, 2015 11:19AM

I have not looked to see if anything has been added to the page in this
case, but I have noticed additional items when tabbing through my banks
bill payment options using Jaws 16 that do not appear with version 15.
It did not occur to me that Jaws might add something to the DOM.

David Farough
(819) 420-8418


>>> "Moore,Michael (DARS)" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > 12:36 PM
Friday, May 01, 2015 >>>
JAWS does not change the code. There are options to filter duplicate
links - thus is JAWS sees "Home" "Home" it will only announce the link
once. You can also tell JAWS to skip repeated navigation - this will
ignore a common nav bar at the top of the page. This one is a bit less
reliable and some users will have a hard time finding search. All of
this is totally under control of the user. There is a FLASH based screen
reader detection script that I have seen used to trigger dynamic changes
in the code - this is usually pretty dangerous and often causes more
trouble than it solves especially since the detection does not work for
all screen readers. A final option that I have seen (SharePoint and
PeopleSoft) is a user selected flag that turns on "Accessibility"
options. This also results in dynamic changes to the code. Best practice
remains to make the code accessible from the beginning rather than bolt
on accessibility later.

Mike Moore
Accessibility Coordinator,
Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services
(512) 424-4159 (Office)
(512) 574-0091 (Cell)

-----Original Message-----
From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
Behalf Of Jonathan Avila
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 3:26 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] JAWS adds tabindex=-1

There is indeed a JAWS option for filter duplicate links that we
recommend to turn off. I'm not sure specifically what it does to the
page but this may it.

I've also seen pages adapt their code such as add titles to form fields
when the code detects a keyboard user and assumes a screen reader when
tab is used for navigation.


Jonathan
Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 30, 2015, at 4:02 PM, Paul J. Adam < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:
>
> I've see JAWS do that on elements it considers "duplicate" like maybe
an image link right above a text link or some other repeating link type
problem. I've seen this cause additional accessibility problems rather
than fix a problem of repetition.
>
> It only happened with IE though. I'm not aware of any other screen
readers that manipulate the DOM like this?
>
>
> Paul J. Adam
> Accessibility Evangelist
> www.deque.com <http://www.deque.com/>;
>> On Apr 30, 2015, at 2:46 PM, MEJ - Beth Sullivan
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> does anyone know why tabindex=-1 is added to links sometimes when
>> JAWS is running?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Beth
>> >> >> archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
>> >
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