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From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Oct 12, 2004 7:22AM

> From: julian.rickards

> I can't imagine that JAWS users would know that
> content has changed/become "visible".

Julian, sorry, should have specified: from the way I understand the document, it's not that JAWS instantly flags the newly visible content to the user, but rather that JAWS (the application) is notified that a change has occurred somewhere in the document itself...if that makes sense.

Admittedly, my blanket statement of "all javascript is fine as long as it's user activated" only referred to the screenreader's ability to detect that something has actually happened. There are still the usual other considerations to be taken into account (e.g. if you have an onfocus that changes something in another part of the document, this may not be apparent to the user, and if onblur it removes the change again, the user may never realise that something actually occurred).

And having said all that, I may just be completely wrong, as I'm trying to divine meaning out of a few lines found on the Freedom Scientific site ;)

Patrick
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