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From: Alexander Karelas
Date: May 12, 2018 2:26PM

Should I file an issue on NVDA's github repo?


On 12/05/2018 10:36 μμ, Jonathan Pool wrote:
>> If they press Enter while on the region, or NVDA+Space, they hear the
>> clicking sound, but the current tree item doesn't get read out.
>>
>> The only way I managed to have the active treeitem read, is by pressing
>> the Tab key, but I think that might not be an optimal way to surf to the
>> tree, as it will first cycle through all of the links of the page, which
>> could be many.
>>
>> So what am I doing wrong on my page? How do I solve it? Is it possible
>> that this could be an imperfection of NVDA?
>>
>> Removing the region that wraps the tree doesn't seem right, because then
>> the 'd' key cannot be used to surf to the tree, only the Tab key will
>> do, which has the problem I mentioned above
>>
>> What do I do? How does someone use this page?
>>
>> Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.