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From: Nick Allan
Date: Sep 14, 2016 12:36AM

Thanks for that. I thought that would be the case.

Nick


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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] screen reader announcing clickable

Hello,
The clickable element means that everything inside it will be clickable. It doesn't matter if anything is attached to it, it is clickable. I'm not sure if there is any way for a screen reader to recognize if something happens when an element is pressed, but I doubt it. If that clickable didn't show, a screen reader user would never know anything in that element was clickable.
The only way to get rid of this is to just wrap the part that will get a click in a clickable div and remove the event from higher up the tree.
Thanks,


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

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 8:59 PM, Nick Allan < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Hi all
> I'm doing some testing on a web page where a section has paragraphs of
> text that all announce clickable when you arrow through it using jaws.
> There is a div a few levels up in the dom that has a click event
> attached to it according to firebug in firefox.
> I assume this is why the text is saying clickable. Is there any method
> to stop a screen reader announcing clickable other than verbosity
> settings in the screen reader? clicking on the text doesn't actually do anything.
>
> Any suggestions would be welcome.
>
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