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Re: JAWS / says "No clickable elements on page"

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From: Steve Green
Date: Jun 7, 2018 12:19PM

This sounds like a massive accessibility issue, and not only for screen reader users. JAWS considers clickable elements to be links, buttons and elements with onClick event handlers - I don't think there's anything else.

I have encountered many websites where JAWS does not recognise one or more of the links or buttons, but never a website where it didn't recognise any. In the case of links, the cause is often the absence of an "href" attribute, which would also break keyboard navigability. In that case, adding href="javascript:void()" or href="#" usually fixes the issue.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd


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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Lawrence Guros
Sent: 07 June 2018 18:35
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Subject: [WebAIM] JAWS / says "No clickable elements on page"

JAWS / says "No clickable element on page" - Does anyone know what JAWS considers a clickable element? There are many buttons, etc on the page.
We do use Knockout, so I think most of the event listeners are probably (speculating here) done with javascript element.addEventListener and not by having a click="someFunction()" in the DOM. Is that the issue? (but not under our control).

Is this an accessibility issue?

Thanks,
Larry