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From: julian.rickards@ndm.gov.on.ca
Date: Oct 12, 2004 7:10AM

I don't know for certain but I question whether Patrick's statement is
correct (generally). If a mouse pointer (or tab key) moves to/over a
particular link and JS then makes additional information available via
changing display:none to display:block, in another part of the screen (for
example, the link is in the left navbar and the show/hide content is in the
center of the screen), I can't imagine that JAWS users would know that
content has changed/become "visible".

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Julian Rickards
A/Digital Publications Distribution Coordinator
Publication Services Section,
Ministry of Northern Development and Mines,
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-----Original Message-----
From: p.h.lauke [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]

If I understand the JAWS documentation correctly, any javascript
modification (be it DOM based, old-school document.writes, switching styles,
etc) should be safe as long as they're bound to a user interaction (e.g.
onfocus/onblur, as opposed to things like scripts activated via a timer, or
onload)