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Re: Odd JAWS behavior

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Aug 12, 2015 3:29AM

Running that code snippet locally did not produce this behavior.
This could be something the Javascript is doing when the element receives focus.
YOu wouldn´t be at liberty to share the actual URL where these wonders
are going on?


On 8/11/15, Jim Allan < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Have you tried it without the < span>
> Sometimes jaws gets weird with nested tags
> On Aug 11, 2015 2:30 PM, "Moore,Michael (HHSC)" <
> <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> I have a series of links where if you use read by line, paragraph, or
>> character, the link in the code below is read as "Help" it also shows up
>> as
>> "Help" in a JAWS links list. However if you tab to the link you here a
>> series of numbers and letters followed by the "#" symbol and then finally
>> "Help"
>>
>> <li>
>> <a id="linkHelp_en" onclick="helpTextPopUp('
>> http://wcm-pfx-vip.hhscie.txaccess.net:80/wps/wcm/connect/englishhelp/Your
>> Texas Benefits');" href="#">
>> <span>Help</span>
>> </a>
>> <script>
>>
>> document.getElementById("linkHelp_en").setAttribute("onclick",
>> "helpTextPopUp('"+wcmHelpLink_en+"');");
>> </script>
>> </li>
>>
>> I am not sure if this is being caused by the use of href="#" or if because
>> this list is contained inside of a menu element that contains no menuitems
>> or something else.
>>
>> Any clues?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mike
>> >> >> >> >>
> > > > >


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