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From: JP Jamous
Date: Oct 15, 2016 11:47AM

I have worked directly with their A11Y team. I was more focused on their Wiki or Crowd system, which had lots of issues. It integrates with JIRA big time.

The whole system is jacked up, because it was obtained from different places as modules and put together. What they are doing now is that they are planning on re-engineering Wiki from scratch with the new major version to ensure full accessibility with screen readers and Braille displays. They have had too many clients complaining about this.

I have not had that many issues with JIRA at work. Wiki is a different ball game and I work with Wiki more.

Personally, I don't recommend wasting time on new JAWS scripts since they will be re-engineering the UI from scratch to accommodate screen readers. If you use JAWS 17 along with some tricks, you can be almost as productive as your counterparts. I have been doing so for the last 8 months even they did upgrade our system, which changed the template for Wiki.

For example, rather than reading links associated with a parent page at the end of the parent page, you now have a treeview that shows the child pages as links. The treeview is toward the top of the DOM. I use Insert + F7 to pull that list up and navigate to what I want. Of course, the ideal way, would be for JAWS to recognize it as a Windows Explorer treview or dropdown menus, but it doesn't.

Yet, we are still running V5 something. So we are not up to 6 at my company.