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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Dec 6, 2016 5:15PM

Screen readers do not always follow the recommendation of aria when it
comes to live regions.
I don´t blame them, maybe the recommendations of ARIA are not
technically feasable, because of the way screen readers, browsers and
text-to-speech engines interact.
I wish I could find clear documentation on how they interact and if
there really is a difference between, e.g. aria-live="assertive" and
aria-live="polite".
The ARIA spec has suggestions on the different behaviors.



On 12/6/16, Lucy Greco < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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
> Follow me on twitter @accessaces
>
>
> 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
>> E+R=O
>>
>>