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

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jun 7, 2018 1:23PM

On 07/06/2018 18:35, Lawrence Guros wrote:
> 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?

For reference: without providing a reduced test case, a live URL, or
even just an extract of the markup/DOM, it's always difficult to
diagnose this sort of thing.

Also...just JAWS? Which browser? Have you tried other browser/AT
combinations? Do they all report things the way you expect, and it's
only JAWS that's misbehaving?

P
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