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Re: screen reader announcing clickable

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From: Aaron Cannon
Date: Sep 15, 2016 8:47AM

Hi Mike.

Yes, agreed. Definitely a difficult undertaking, to say the least. :)

Aaron

On 9/15/16, Moore,Michael (Accessibility) (HHSC)
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Thanks for the explanation Aaron. I thought that I had read something
> similar before. That being the case, that the broad click handler includes
> logic that determines what exactly was clicked and how to respond to it
> would mean that to determine whether or not to report an object as clickable
> the screen reader would need to be able to parse the JS click handler and
> then either set of a directory of which objects were actually actionable and
> report those. I suspect that this would be very difficult technologically,
> may be blocked by browser security features, and would probably result in
> major performance and stability issues...
>
> Mike Moore
> Accessibility Coordinator
> Texas Health and Human Services Commission
> Civil Rights Office
> (512) 438-3431 (Office)
>
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