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Re: Keyboard behavior with JAWS

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Aug 24, 2015 4:15AM

Patrick
Jaws/NVDA in browse mode activate the element's onclick event when
enter is pressed with focus on that element (not the onKey events). In
application/forms mode howver, the onKey events are triggered when
user presses enter.
If you change the function trigger to be the onClick event, you should be fine.



On 8/24/15, pratik roy < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Recently, I faced a scenario where keyboard "Enter" key is not functioning
> as expected and we have to press "Alt+Enter" in order to make it work.
>
> In our webpage, we have some button elements and onclick of those buttons,
> it is performing some action. We have used onkeypress event with
> keycode="13" (Enter) to handle the functionality. But when I hit Enter it
> is not even firing the event but working absolutely normal with "Alt+Enter".
>
> After that, I tried to do console.log() and saw that all key stock action
> is working normally if I press any key with "Alt".
>
> Now, my problem is, I am not sure whether that key combination is common
> for screen reader user or not.
>
> If anyone can share user experience for this kind of senario or a solution
> of this problem, that will be GREAT Help.
>
> Note: All keyboard keys are working fine with role="application" but I
> don't want to make it a application region. :)
>
> Thanks & Regards
> PRATIK ROY
>
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 11:30 PM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
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