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Re: Keyboard behavior with JAWS

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Aug 24, 2015 7:46AM

> 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.

Correct, and as an FYI to new people -- for other elements (not buttons and anchors) such as divs, adding an onlick and tabindex is not enough to provide keyboard access -- an author would need an onlick and keyboard event handlers to support both the click from a screen reader in browse mode and keyboard access.

Jonathan

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