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Re: screen reader announcing clickable

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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Sep 14, 2016 1:53PM

telling users to set there verbosaty to not speack the event is the rong
thing in every sence of the word. if a user sets there verbosaty to not
speak these events they will miss the times its a reel clickable event so
its got to be used with care and make sure only the item that is clickable
is speaking it lucy

Lucia Greco
Web Accessibility Evangelist
IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
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On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:48 AM, Wee, Kim (MNIT) < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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> Wondering if this is a web page or an eLearning module displayed in the
> browser. I ask because I have found this same issue with eLearning modules
> created in Captivate and published as HTML5
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> Nick;
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> Are you able to remove the event from the upper level div?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Allan [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 11:59 PM
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> Subject: [WebAIM] screen reader announcing clickable
>
> 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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