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From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Feb 2, 2017 1:27PM

Sometimes the failure to assign a suitable role etc. on a container
element is so pervasive on some pages that the screen reader keeps
repeating 'clickable' making it almost impossible to use the page.
It can be flagged as a 4.1.2 issue then.
Of course I agree with Paul and Birkir.
Thanks,
Sailesh


On 1/9/17, Birkir R. Gunnarsson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Paul describes this pretty well.
> Windows based screen readers (NVDA and Jaws) will fire a click event
> when users press enter or spacebar while in browse mode.
> This piece of code should work with Jaws and NVDA (copy into your tex
> edtr and set up a webpage):
> <span onclick="alert('you clicked me');">Click me, click me</span>
> This span is probably announced as "clickable" by both screen readers,
> and pressing enter on it will pop up the alert.
> If you try to get there using keyboard alone, you won't.
> Simulated click vents don't seem to work consistently when attached to
> the <body> element, or to a container element with a bunch of content
> inside it.
> I have not had the time to explore this in more depth yet, though it
> Is on my "it would be fun to do" list.
>
>
>
> On 1/9/17, Paul J. Adam < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> In my experience it means that they have a JavaScript click event attached
>> to an element without a role and without any keyboard focusability or
>> keyboard keypress events.
>>
>> So it could be a <span> or <div> or <a> without the href.
>>
>> VoiceOver users can press control+option+spacebar to "click" the element
>> with the mouse but you can't press enter or spacebar key to activate it
>> unless it's actually accessible.
>>
>> Paul J. Adam
>> Accessibility Evangelist
>> www.deque.com
>>
>>> On Jan 8, 2017, at 11:21 PM, Joey G. < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> What does it mean for the screen reader when it say aloud the word
>>> 'clickable' instead of the very obvious link? For example there is a
>>> website that every word in their article it has clickable in it. Why is
>>> that and can I actually click on it?
>>>
>>> Joey
>>>
>>> >>> >>> >>> >>
>> >> >> >> >>
>
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