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Re: Buttons not operable with 'Space/Enter' When Screen Reader is ON

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jan 3, 2019 12:02PM

> If these were synthetic buttons with just an onkeyboard handler (and no
click handler), then they wouldn't work for a sighted mouse user

Not necessarily the case. What Birkir describes is very common. They may be using mouseup or mousedown events on the buttons and not a click handler.

Or possibly they are using a click handler but have some overlay over the button that is the delegate or perhaps looking for some other characteristic of the click event that is not in the one sent by screen readers.

Jonathan

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Birkir,

If these were synthetic buttons with just an onkeyboard handler (and no
click handler), then they wouldn't work for a sighted mouse user. If that
were the case, hopefully they would have found the problem much sooner.

Glen


On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 8:31 AM Birkir R. Gunnarsson <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> If these are synthetic buttons that only work with onkeyboard
> listeners, they would fail when a screen reader is running.
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