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From: Sean Murphy
Date: Nov 2, 2016 6:37PM

That is interesting in relation to EDGE. I will have to check out the status of Edge support with Jaws. I believe NVDA provides some support now.

Sean
> On 3 Nov. 2016, at 8:13 am, Mallory < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> One thing to be aware of for the future is, even JAWS might not be able
> to
> do some of this later on. I know both JAWS and NVDA do some sniffing
> around of the DOM and heuristics to make guesses of things, but for
> example this isn't allowed any more on Edge (for security reasons
> they've said) and I would expect most of the other browser vendors
> to do the same, for the same reasons. I'm not sure what SRs and other
> AT will do about that, since the reason they do it is poor authoring.
>
> _mallory
>
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2016, at 03:45 AM, Beranek, Nicholas wrote:
>> We test primarily with the latest versions of NVDA and Firefox. We've
>> found that JAWS will compensate for bad coding practices (e.g. A missing
>> programmatic label but adjacent text was present) and there were
>> possibilities that it missed certain issues. If there is ever any
>> question about the results from NVDA; then we'll try another browser. If
>> it persists, we try another screen reader such as JAWS. Sometimes, we'll
>> find that it's simply a user agent issue and we'll do our best to file a
>> bug.
> > > >