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From: Andre Polykanine
Date: Oct 21, 2018 5:13AM

Hi Isabel,

> 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.

Sorry, but what for?
If your users are sighted, they can use a mouse. If they are blind,
they use a screen reader that gives them an opportunity to select with
keyboard alone.

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With best regards from Ukraine,
Andre
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Twitter (English only): @AndrePolykanine


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From: Isabel Holdsworth < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Date created: , 12:06:12 PM
Subject: [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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