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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Dec 6, 2016 4:20PM

my advice for testing is you should only run default settings the only
settings i change on my test systems is typing echo i use words and
punctuation. if your running defaults and the bad behavior happens that is
what you want to work for. we can't expect a user will know ware the
settings are to change and we can't expect they will read documentation.
the best example of this is the google documentation that says how to set
up your screen reader no one ever reads that before they scream about how
bad google docs is. this is some thing i know for a fact because if they
had read the documentation it would tell them what they are screaming ming
about would be fixed if they followed instructions grin lucy

Lucia Greco
Web Accessibility Evangelist
IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
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On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 12:26 PM, JP Jamous < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Jim,
>
> Is this a permanent setting or a quick one for testing purposes?
>
> You can always use Insert + Space followed by z to load the default
> settings for a quick test.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
> Behalf Of Jim Homme
> Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 2:11 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Subject: [WebAIM] Making Sure of ARIA Screen Reading Settings
>
> Hi,
> If someone would please guide me in this area, thanks ahead of time. I'm
> using JAWS 18. I was looking at a site that I thought was using ARIA
> Assertive. The developer said it was using ARIA polite, and I went in and
> tried to look at the tags with the JAWS key stroke that shows the outward
> nestings of tags, and sure enough, I did see that assertive was being used.
> The symptom, though, is that JAWS is still being interrupted between key
> strokes. I tried to make sure that JAWS was set up correctly but can't seem
> to locate the right spot in the Settings Center. Can anyone point me to
> where to go to make sure that JAWS is set up correctly for this testing? I
> think the same question would also be in order for NVDA, but I haven't yet
> attempted to look through its settings for ARIA settings.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
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