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From: Joseph Sherman
Date: Apr 14, 2017 8:06AM

I'm on a page with a bunch of regions and headings. The top of page is the banner and search region. The main region has search results which are labeled H3. When the page loads the cursor is at the top of the page in the banner region. I press "3" to go to the first h3 search results, but JAWS says ""no more headings at level X in this section".
Why does JAWS give this unhelpful response instead of going to the h3 in the Main section? When I press "3' in NVDA, it goes directly to the first search result, h3.

I find this happens in a number of pages and web applications and is very annoying to have to first be in the correct region, and then be able to go to the heading that I want. Sometimes this happens for h1 in the main region if I am in the banner region. Is there a setting or something I can change in JAWS?
Joseph