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Re: Query regarding scrolling Issue when accessing webpage with browse mode

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From: Mallory
Date: Aug 3, 2021 10:36AM

Hm, but * web pages * do scroll with browse mode in JAWS, NVDA and Orca (and I recall back when Firefox did NOT scroll for Orca... people on the Orca mailing list asked about it and eventually it got fixed, though I think the fix had to be on Mozilla's side...).

But I'm not sure if moving around a data grid has the same trigger as a page scroll, so it sounds like Birkir is right about why it's not scrolling: the browser doesn't "see" the virtual cursor in that, meaning the widget can't react.

_mallory

On Tue, Aug 3, 2021, at 6:20 PM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson wrote:
> A screen reader createsw an off-screen model (aka virtual buffer) with
> the page content. In browse mode you are solely interacting with that
> content so you are not sending events to the webpage (not unless yuou
> do something in the virtual buffer that submits an event to the page,
> e.g. pressing the tab key to change the programmatic focus or interact
> with/click on an element).
>
> There were ideas about a more interactive browse mode (e.g. the ARIA
> 1.1 proposed implementation of implementing a feed using the feed and
> article roles) but I believe that feature was never supported by
> screen reader vendors.
>
> On 8/3/21, Gupta, Gaurav k via WebAIM-Forum
> < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> > Hello Experts,
> >
> > Need help in understanding the issue.
> >
> > Using JAWS browse mode if I am trying to read the data from a grid then auto
> > scrolling is not happening.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest what could be the reason?
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > Gaurav
> >
> >
> >
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