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Re: Making Sure of ARIA Screen Reading Settings

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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Dec 6, 2016 5:01PM

the best way to make sure your running the default settings is to go to the
jaws menu in the start menu and there you can explore to the users
settings folder its call inu. and just select all in that folder and
remove every thing from that folder.. then all your settings will be
reset to defaults.

if you want to keep some of your settings you can also just run default at
the time of testing settings but i forget what the command line string is
to type at the run dialog.

there is no good place to find these settings and sadly there are no
settings. for aria jaws makes up the way they follow the stander and its
some times hard to know if its jaws causing some thing to read funny or if
its coded wrong. i had this problem just yesterday in a clinic jaws is now
not reading some tables that are coded properly because jaws thinks they
are layout tables when they are not. this is why we need to test in as
many screen readers as we can. but nun of us have all the time we need.
Jim any time you want to call to walk thru some of these things please feel
free i am more then glad to help 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 3:46 PM, Jim Homme < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi Lucy,
> I want to know what JAWS defaults to and make sure I understand that it is
> set to those settings. Then I want to understand how JAWS is supposed to
> treat live regions. Please forgive me for possibly wrong terms. After that,
> I want to retest and view source to ensure that the code is in that renders
> what I'm supposed to see. So far I have only made JAWS run faster and
> changed some keyboard settings and minimal other things. I don't know where
> to look for ARIA settings to see what it is set to, nor do I see
> documentation on what the company thinks JAWS is supposed to act like under
> various conditions, but I did run into Surf's Up, which gives *some info.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
>
>
> =========> Jim Homme,
> Team Lead and Accessibility Consultant,
> Bender HighTest Accessibility Team
> Bender Consulting Services, Inc.,
> 412-787-8567,
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
> http://www.benderconsult.com/our%20services/hightest-
> accessible-technology-solutions
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