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From: Jim Homme
Date: Sep 14, 2016 5:04PM

Hi,
This issue could be somewhat controversial. I know that hearing the word clickable is annoying, confusing, or both, to screen reader users, but there could be a compromise solution. Usually, when developers use this technique, in my experience at any rate, they intend for the user to click anywhere on a web page except some area, possibly to close it, for example. This behavior benefits people with motor disabilities and older people who can use a mouse, but not as accurately as a young person with good hand-eye coordination. The compromise may be to only make the page exhibit the bubbling behavior when the desired situation occurs. We screen reader users tend to be vocal and get lots of attention, and many times for god reason, but we are in the minority of people who would like to have their version of web accessibility.

Jim


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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Lucy Greco
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 3:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] screen reader announcing clickable

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
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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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