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

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From: JP Jamous
Date: Oct 7, 2016 6:26AM

Dan,

No we aren't working for the same company. Thank God! :)

Dude, that will be a major can of worms. I hope they isolate that site from other users.
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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Dan Smith
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] How do users of physical Assistive Technologies access screen reader shortcuts

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