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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Oct 16, 2018 6:12AM
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> Glen, I've played with caret browsing in IE and FF, as I thought it might be the way to go, but it doesn't seem to work with JAWS. Or perhaps I'm doing something wrong
JAWS allows for users to select text on the page and read it back through it's own virtual cursor and speech synthesizer. Is there something in particular that the separate page selection with the keyboard would provide that isn't already provided by the JAWS select and speak commands without having to use caret browsing?
Jonathan
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Highlighting static HTML using the keyboard
Thanks everyone.
JP, do you think you could expand a bit more on your idea? It sounds interesting, but I'm wary of adding too many tab stops to an already reasonably cluttered interface, so there's no way I'd want to add a tab stop for, say, each word in a block of static text. Am I misunderstanding you?
Andre, thanks for the MDN link. I already have the speech synthesis aspect working, so users can click a paragraph or list item with the mouse and have it spoken aloud. But I'm trying to replicate the selection functionality for keyboard users.
Glen, I've played with caret browsing in IE and FF, as I thought it might be the way to go, but it doesn't seem to work with JAWS. Or perhaps I'm doing something wrong. Has anyone else had any success with this?
Cheers, Isabel
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> Andre, I know your were maybe just using a particular keystroke as an
> example, but Ctrl+P on Windows machines triggers the Print dialogue.
> Or is that what you meant to do?
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