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Re: up/down arrow navigation in NVDA

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From: Mallory
Date: Jun 24, 2017 7:08AM

with NVDA, I seem to get browser focus on any focusable I run into as I
arrow.
I don't go into focus mode, I just see the outline dots and hitting
enter seems to work.

cheers,

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017, at 08:17 PM, Mike Warner wrote:
> 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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> >
> > Message: 8
> > Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 12:08:55 -0400
> > From: Mike Warner < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> > To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> > Subject: [WebAIM] up/down arrow navigation in NVDA
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike
> >
> > Mike Warner
> > Director of IT Services
> > MindEdge, Inc.
> >
> >
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> > Message: 9
> > 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
> > Message-ID: <09eb01d2e9e0$e9cdcb10$bd696130$@gmail.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Pratik Patel
> > Pratik Patel
> > Founder & CEO, EZFire
> >
> >
> >