WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: ARIA-Multiselectable and JAWS?

for

From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jun 9, 2020 4:26PM

Hi Dawn, I believe a more simple Accordion pattern would likely suffice hear rather than a tab pattern. Then multi-selectable would not be needed.

Jonathan

-----Original Message-----
From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker)
Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 5:36 PM
To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Subject: [WebAIM] ARIA-Multiselectable and JAWS?

CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.


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 The University of Arizona | <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >
drc.arizona.edu<http://drc.arizona.edu/>; | itaccessibility.arizona.edu<http://itaccessibility.arizona.edu/>;
520-626-9409