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From: Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker)
Date: Jun 9, 2020 3:36PM

Hi all,

I've run into an issue where our sites are using an ARIA property of "Multiselectable". It is being used to create expand/collapse menu items such as the ones shown at https://www.arizona.edu/faculty-awards-honors

These expand/collapse options work great with simple keyboard access and work as expected with NVDA. However, when using JAWS, the options do not expand/collapse and JAWS jumps to a link that is displayed prior to that section. I did find a GitHub page that shows that multiselectable as questionable for support... https://freedomscientific.github.io/VFO-standards-support/aria.html

Has anyone else seen this issue?

Bear Down,
Dawn

Dawn Hunziker
IT Accessibility Consultant, Sr. | Disability Resources
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