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Re: Navigating via headings in VoiceOver

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From: Jonathan C. Cohn
Date: Jun 8, 2015 1:40PM

If you are doing this testing on a Macintosh then it will depend on your tracking settings on what happens. The tab is moving focus or keyboard while the quicknav keys will move the voiceover cursor.


Jonathan Cohn

> On Jun 8, 2015, at 2:22 PM, Moore,Michael (HHSC) < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> I believe that the correct use of Voice Over would be to use reading commands to read by line or paragraph until you encounter a link or other active element. Then tab will take you to the next. The tab key only moves from active element to active element. Adding a tab-index of 0 to the headings would make it more difficult to navigate the page for sighted keyboard users.
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> Mike Moore
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