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Re: up/down arrow navigation in NVDA

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From: Mike Warner
Date: Jun 20, 2017 12:17PM

Thanks, everyone. Restarting Firefox did the trick.

My next question is how to get the focus on a <button> element when
navigating with the up and down arrows. The button is not in a form. The
buttons in the forms get the focus a expected.

Thanks again,
Mike

Mike Warner
Director of IT Services
MindEdge, Inc.
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> Hi all,
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> anyone else experience issues where you sometimes can and sometimes can't
> navigate a page using the up and down arrows in NVDA and Firefox? I was
> testing something today and the same page worked fine before, but now the
> arrows make the page scroll. I also went to a WebAIM page and the same
> thing happened. Is there a setting in NVDA that I need to adjust?
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> Thanks,
> Mike
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> Mike Warner
> Director of IT Services
> MindEdge, Inc.
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> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 12:18:54 -0400
> From: "Pratik Patel" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> To: "'WebAIM Discussion List'" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] up/down arrow navigation in NVDA
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> Due to a long-standing bug in Firefox, NVDA goes into focus mode upon
> launch if Firefox has the primary focus. This essentially means that you
> can only navigate by using tab and shift+tab keys. To prevent this, make
> sure that an application other than Firefox has focus when you start NVDA.
> Restarting Firefox when NVDA is running also resolves this issue.
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> Regards,
>
> Pratik Patel
> Pratik Patel
> Founder & CEO, EZFire
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