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Re: [EXTERNAL] Accessibility: ARIA trees obviously not accessible with NVDa/JAWS screenreader and Firefox/Chrome on Windows

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jan 27, 2021 11:10AM

One reason why trees and other widgets may not be navigable with browse mode is that they require knowing the focused element. In browse mode JAWS and NVDA (no longer) sets focus to the elements on navigation with arrow keys. Focus setting would need to occur - but this has potential side effects that would need to be handled. It's likely something that could be addressed but my guess is that it's tricky.

Jonathan