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Re: JAWS 14 issues with partial view reloads for SinglePage Java web applications

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jul 21, 2015 3:34PM

> It's a very interesting problem. Essentially the team is trying to move the focus manually using js. However, there is dynamic server side content that is being added asynchronously which is stealing the jaws virtual cursor from the .focus() code when the dynamic content loads.

Dynamic code cannot steal the virtual cursor to my knowledge unless it also had focused content within it. My guess is that JAWS just isn't seeing the focus change or the new content. As others have said this is likely a timing issue. If you are afraid of using a hard number with setTimeout it may be more useful to actually check for the presence of the page settling down before calling .focus() -- so a setTimeout might act as a callback and simply check over and over until certain elements or attributes are present or set and then after that criteria is set actually call the .focus() method. So basically the code is waiting for a trigger by setting a timer that runs until the trigger occurs.

Jonathan

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