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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Nov 19, 2015 3:09PM

> "do functionality meant to achieved through keyboard can get altered while screen reader is turned on"

Generally this occurs when a control is watching for keyboard events like onKeyUp etc for enter and space and perhaps works with onMouseDown but the control does not support the click event. When the screen reader is in browse mode and the user presses enter it sends the click event to an element -- not a key press and not a mouseDown. There is a setting in some screen readers like JAWS to change this behavior but this needs to be corrected in the web page.

Jonathan

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-----Original Message-----
From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of sucharu
Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2015 5:24 AM
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] keyboard accessibility while screen reader on

Hello sir,
Thanks a lot.
I went through the material you referred to, valuable indeed.
But still the question to which I look for is unanswered i.e.
"do functionality meant to achieved through keyboard can get altered while screen reader is turned on"

-----Original Message-----
From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Patrick H. Lauke
Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2015 3:39 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] keyboard accessibility while screen reader on

On 19/11/2015 10:02, sucharu wrote:
> Meanwhile, can you please guide me about "how a screen readerworks and interacts with machine

Some starting points:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=how%20do%20screen%20readers%20work

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