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Re: screen reader announcing clickable

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From: Paul Collins
Date: Sep 14, 2016 12:43AM

Hi Nick,

Without being able to see the code and how the click handler is
implemented, I am assuming the click event is bubbling up the dom tree to
the parent DIV, when the paragraphs are clicked.

If so, it would be worth looking into the following two Javascript DOM API
events and how JAWS deals with them:

event.stopPropogation:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/Event/stopPropagation
event.preventDefault:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/Event/preventDefault

Hope that will be of some help, feel free to ask more questions!

Cheers,
Paul

On 14 September 2016 at 16:09, Brandon Keith Biggs <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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 <Nick.Allan@visionaustralia.
> org>
> 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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