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Re: Seeking input on SC 2.4.7 & Screen Readers

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From: Jennifer Sutton
Date: May 3, 2016 9:38PM

For those who may be unaware, I'll provide the link to the Focus
Highlight Plugin for NVDA which is the one I believe Jonathan meant when
he wrote, in part:

"There is a plug-in though for NVDA."


I believe this is a link to the most recent version:


http://addons.nvda-project.org/addons/focusHighlight.en.html


In addition, I'll mention that both JFW and NVDA have ways to display
the textual representation of what each screen reader is speaking. Using
this can be faster for those who are not used to listening to
text-to-speech, and it can also save time, when writing reports, since
you can "copy and paste." Yes, I realize this may be slightly off-topic,
but I think many Windows users who have vision and are learning to test
with a screen reader may not realize that JFW and NVDA can do something
visually similar to what VO can do on the Mac.



Best,

Jennifer



On 5/3/2016 10:52 AM, Jonathan Avila wrote:
>> However, when I enable JAWS or NVDA, this visible focus is lost.
> Hi Nicole, with JAWS in virtual cursor mode the focus is not moved to an element when you arrow to it -- only when you tab. With NVDA and some other screen readers the element is focused when you arrow to it in browse mode. I noticed that even though links in IE are focused by NVDA no focus outline appears. In Firefox the focus outline does appear on links when you arrow to them with NVDA. So what you are experiencing seems like normal behavior -- perhaps with a bug in how NVDA and IE work. NVDA and IE have some known issues and JAWS works this way by design. So as long as the focus indicator is shown without AT running and the AT can identify the programmatic focus it should be fine. Some ATs provide their own focus indicators based on programmatic focus being set but JAWS and NVDA do not. There is a plug-in though for NVDA.
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