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Re: How do users of physical Assistive Technologies access screen reader shortcuts

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From: Dan Smith
Date: Oct 6, 2016 8:27PM

Thanks both for your replies. Rakesh, those sticky keys sound great. :)

JP Jamous, perhaps we are working with the same client ;-) The mindset here
is that screen readers only work with the TAB key. These guys have tunnel
vision for the deadline, so no structural changes are allowed and
everything goes into the uncommented blackbox of JavaScript. A small
example is that anything semantic is removed with aria-hidden and a
negative tab-index, then they use 300 positive tab indices and JavaScript
key events on divs to duplicate everything with aria-describedby. Good luck
using that with Rotor! ;-)

Cheers,
Dan