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Re: The Famous Clickable Message

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From: Aaron Cannon
Date: Sep 20, 2016 8:53AM

How did you verify that no elements in the DOM have onclick or
similar? If you only browsed the attributes on the elements, you
could have missed one or more.

For instance, if you do something like the following with jQuery:

$(body).click(clickHandlerFunction);

That will add a click handler to the body tag, but won't place an
onclick attribute on the body element in the DOM inspector. At least
this is how it was when I last checked a few years ago.

Other events that respond to clicks are the mousedown and mouseup
events, so technically they could be picked up by a screen reader as
well, but I'm not sure if they are.

Aaron

On 9/20/16, JP Jamous < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Okay folks,
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> This has gotten me stumped here. I have the whole DOM of multiple pages and
> neither one has onclick or onmouseover. Yet, JAWS 17 is announcing Clickable
> after static text.
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> What other DOM elements could make JAWS or NVDA announce Clickable besides
> the above?
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