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

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From: Christopher Koeber
Date: Jul 2, 2015 5:40PM

Hey,

This is an internal site for the client; they'll always be late installing
the latest version of anything. Running Windows 7 but they won't be
upgrading from IE 8 or JAWS 11 anytime soon.

May I ask, what are the elements that JAWS 11 supports well that you know
of?

On Thu, Jul 2, 2015, 7:17 PM Jonathan C. Cohn < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > But with Internet Explorer 8 the same set of items are not read at all.
> >
> >
> >
> > In addition, it seems JAWS (11 at least) will stop reading the page even
> if
> > there is one or two HTML markup errors.
> >
> >
> >
> > So I have two (2) questions:
> >
> >
> >
> > -
> >
> > Has anyone found a consistent way to develop for all browsers
> > (especially older ones) as well as newer ones?
> > -
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > I hope this find folks well.
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> >
> > Christopher Kurtis Koeber
> >
> > E: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> >
> > P: (301) 467-8417
> > > > > > > > > > > > >