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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Oct 17, 2018 2:28PM

Isabel, It may depend on what you are doing. You will likely need to test it with JAWS and other screen readers.

Jonathan

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> On Oct 16, 2018, at 12:05 PM, Isabel Holdsworth < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> I don't know whether JAWS selects text in the same way that caret
> browsing does. If I want my speech synthesis component to speak the
> selected text, will it be available through JavaScript regardless of
> whether I use JAWS or the caret to select it? Or is JAWS only
> selecting text in the virtual buffer? I have no idea.
>
> On 16/10/2018, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of
>> Isabel Holdsworth
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 5:06 AM
>> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>> 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
>>
>>> On 16/10/2018, Graham Armfield < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Graham Armfield
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