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From: Steve Faulkner
Date: May 4, 2018 9:03AM

>
> I filed a Jaws bug for this in December
>
https://github.com/FreedomScientific/VFO-standards-support/issues/33


Thanks for the reminder Birkir, have gone in to the JAWS internal bug
tracker and given it a bump.

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On 4 May 2018 at 15:30, Birkir R. Gunnarsson < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> I filed a Jaws bug for this in December
> https://github.com/FreedomScientific/VFO-standards-support/issues/33
> (yes, my GitHub username is wildebrew, long story).
> This issue has a fairly detailed description of the problem and points
> to a Codepen I created to demonstrate the problem.
> I could go and file it with NVDA, or anybody who is filing this with
> NVDA is free to point to this issue.
> If you do open an NVDA issue about this, please reply to this thread.
> If nobody has by Sunday I will try to find the time to open it and
> will also reply to this thread.
> Thanks
> -Birkir
>
>
>
> On 5/4/18, glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> > Actually, unknown values are supposed to be treated as "false", according
> > to https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/#aria-haspopup
> >
> > User agents *MUST* treat any value of aria-haspopup that is not included
> in
> >> the list of allowed values...as if the value false had been provided.
> >>
> >
> > Both firefox and chrome, with the latest NVDA, say 'submenu' instead of
> > 'dialog'. Internet Explorer doesn't say anything other than "link".
> JAWS
> > works fine, as you mentioned.
> >
> > I looked at the NVDA bug list and I don't see anything regarding
> > aria-haspopup values. You may want to file a bug for them.
> >
> > https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q> is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+aria-haspopup
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 4:42 AM, Mallory < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
> >
> >> I thought the default for an unknown (or simply "true") value of
> >> aria-haspopup was "menu" so maybe [your version of] NVDA doesn't
> recognise
> >> that value?
> >>
> >> cheers,
> >> _mallory
> >>
> >> On Fri, May 4, 2018, at 11:37 AM, Kakarla Meharoon wrote:
> >> > Hi
> >> >
> >> > I tried to use aria 1.1 updates, aria-haspopup= "dialog" for the link
> >> which
> >> > will open as a popup, but in JAWS it is announced as a dialog but NVDA
> >> > it
> >> > is reading as a submenu.
> >> >
> >> > Did anyone try this one?
> >> >
> >> > Is it necessary to give advance warning to the link/button which opens
> >> as a
> >> > dialog?
> >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>
> > > > > > > > > >
>
>
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