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From: Brandon Keith Biggs
Date: May 14, 2016 6:55PM

Hello,
With NVDA, go into nvda menu / preferences / brows mode / uncheck "use
screen layout (when supported)".
Then everything should work just fine.
Thanks,


Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>;

On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Bryan Garaventa <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I've noticed the same thing in the latest NVDA releases, they seem to have
> backtracked in Tabs interaction support. Would anybody like to file a bug?
> I won't be able to personally until sometime next week.
>
>
> Bryan Garaventa
> Accessibility Fellow
> SSB BART Group, Inc.
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> 415.624.2709 (o)
> www.SSBBartGroup.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
> Behalf Of Alastair Campbell
> Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2016 5:41 AM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Danger! Testing Accessibility with real people —
> Medium
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been looking into this, and before I comment I was wondering if I'm
> getting the correct results from NVDA?
>
> On the test page for ARIA tabs here:
> http://a11yideas.com/testcode/tabs/tabs_with_ARIA.html
>
> Arrowing through, when you get to the tabs they are announced, but all
> read out in one go, you can't move between them. The tab panel is not
> announced, and there is no way of selecting a tab without manually going
> into forms mode.
>
> Tabbing through, selecting a tab with the arrow keys does work, but then
> you have to manually exit forms mode.
>
> It is really filddly compared to Jaws/VoiceOver, it just doesn't seem
> right.
>
> I'm using Windows 10 (in VMWare), NVDA (latest) with Firefox (latest) or
> IE11.
>
> What do others get?
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Alastair
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