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Re: Is NVDA using the wrong type of widget (tree) to show the headings on a page?

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From: Maxability A11Y
Date: Mar 15, 2019 12:13PM

I felt it depends on containor nodes and the structure.
The level of divs that hold two H2s and the H1 are the same.
I personally feel the plane way of heading list provided by JAWS is more useful than that of NVDA as an user.


Regards - Rakesh,
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> On 15-Mar-2019, at 1:22 AM, glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Go to webaim.org and bring up the list of headings in NVDA (Ins+F7).
>
> WebAIM has two h2s before the main h1. NVDA displays all the headings
> using a tree widget but a tree usually has the root node at the top. In
> this case, NVDA displays the first two h2s and the main h1 all as siblings
> on "level 0". After the h1, everything else is correct but it makes it
> appear that there are three h1s on the page, which is not correct.
>
> Has anyone noticed this before?
>
> JAWS doesn't use a tree. It just has a simple list with the heading level
> after the heading text.
>
> Glen
> > > >