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Re: visual scrolling with screen readers

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From: Marissa Sapega
Date: Oct 12, 2018 11:51AM

The Paciello Group's JAWS testing tool (https://www.paciellogroup.com/products/jaws-inspect/) has a feature - Speech Viewer - that gives you a live text view of JAWS speech as JAWS navigates through a page. You could use that to help determine where screen reader focus is.

Thank you,

Marissa Sapega

On 10/11/18, 9:08 PM, "WebAIM-Forum on behalf of Jonathan Cohn" < <EMAIL REMOVED> on behalf of <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

A bit of code that I experience uses significant number of background or font images together with an off screen span for links / buttons. These don't work well with NVDA currently, and I expect that since what JAWS would actually be speaking is off screen that scrolling follows probably would not work well, and actually if badly implemented would move scroll position to as close as possible to the off screen content.

Jonathan Cohn

> On Oct 11, 2018, at 4:48 PM, Wolfgang Berndorfer < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> I use JAWS (at about 95% of time) and sometimes Zoomtext to see, what JAWS
> doesn't tell me. But both run paralell on my system.
>
> My sighted colloegues recognise my focus via visual indication of ZoomText
> (Red rect around the focussed in default).
>
> Very helpful for cooperation with sighted collegues and sensibilisations.
> But not always working. Didn't try to reconstruct issues yet.
>
> And I couldn't try the 2018 Fusion of Jaws and Zoomtext.
>
> Wolfgang
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] Im Auftrag
> von David Engebretson Jr
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. Oktober 2018 21:03
> An: WebAIM Discussion List
> Betreff: [WebAIM] visual scrolling with screen readers
>
> I often share my screen reader findings with sighted developers. Sometimes
> focus is not visually on the screen so the sighted folks don't know where I
> am on the page.
>
> Is there a prescribed method for jumping visual focus to the same point that
> screen reader focus is?
>
> In JAWS I thought JAWSKey+ctrl+delete was supposed to do this but it doesn't
> always work.
>
> Any suggestions for consistently showing where screen reader focus is?
>
> Much appreciated,
> David
>
> David Engebretson Jr.
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
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