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Re: Developing Accessible Pages Using JAWS (11 and IE 8+)

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From: Jonathan C. Cohn
Date: Jul 2, 2015 5:15PM

You are correct, JAWS 11 has very little to no support of ARIA. Is this for an internal or external site. Also, note that Windows 10 will only work with JAWS 16 or higher. Are your clients still running Windows XP?
Let me know if you have any additional questions.



Jonathan Cohn

> On Jul 2, 2015, at 4:32 PM, Christopher Koeber < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I am attempting to develop Section 508 compliant web pages for JAWS 11 and
> Internet Explorer 8 (has to be those versions of said applications per
> client requirements) and one of the major problems I am having is that I
> cannot consistently get screen reader output from JAWS.
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> With Internet Explorer 10-11+ the various ARIA+ labels are supported along
> with reading of DIV tags specially hidden by CSS, thus developing for JAWS
> is much easier.
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> But with Internet Explorer 8 the same set of items are not read at all.
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> In addition, it seems JAWS (11 at least) will stop reading the page even if
> there is one or two HTML markup errors.
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> So I have two (2) questions:
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> Has anyone found a consistent way to develop for all browsers
> (especially older ones) as well as newer ones?
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> Is there a rock-solid no-nonsense table of what JAWS actually reads (in
> terms of "title" versus "aria-label", etc.)? What I am looking for is one
> label/text setting I can set that JAWS will read without fail on a tag,
> other tags seem to be very unreliable.
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> I hope this find folks well.
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> Regards,
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> Christopher Kurtis Koeber
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> E: <EMAIL REMOVED>
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> P: (301) 467-8417
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