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Re: firefox and jaws with aria

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From: Wolfgang Berndorfer
Date: Dec 22, 2018 10:21AM

I experience JAWS announcements from the buffer or even inactive windows
also quite often. Sometimes I miss announcements also, like it just
happened: ctrl + shift + arrow-up didn't read my text.
That's really annoying. But such problems are seldom to repeat or
reconstruct: Is it the OS, the AT or the application or the actual
combination of them that causes the problem?
I personally benefit from my possibility of visual control via
magnification, when my screen reader kneels down. But else when only if one
is used to such problems and quite fit to compensate, he or she recognizes
the change of context: Unadequate announcements, therefore press
alt+tabulator twice, jawskey+escape or anything like that to set up jaws
announcements again.
All such problems affect the effectiveness of AT. (Don’t ell anybody, who
considers to hire a person, who is dependent on AT.)

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Betreff: Re: [WebAIM] firefox and jaws with aria

You are correct Jaws doesn't react to changes with aria-live set to off. But
in some cases I am seeing the previous page in Jaws's virtual buffer even
though I know the page has actually changed. That's what I am confused
about. I understand why Jaws isn't reading the whole change, but I don't
understand why when arrowing through the document Jaws continues to see old
content. It seems that going into forms mode or whatever they call that now
and going back out of it fixes the problem.