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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Thu, Aug 22 2013 11:27AM
Subject: testing and Firefox versus IE
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Hello:
I was just sent some simple pages to check and found something very
strange. I started the testing and Firefox and was quite concerned
because these pages were just simple text with a few links. However jaws
continually read clickable throughout the page in Firefox and not at all
in IE. From what I can tell there's nothing going on in the source code
to do this. Any other testers out there got an idea. I can't share these
pages as they are internal currently or I would. Thanks Lucy

Lucia Greco
Web Access Analyst
IST-Campus Technology Services
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
Follow me on twitter @accessaces

From: Humbert, Joseph A
Date: Thu, Aug 22 2013 11:49AM
Subject: Re: testing and Firefox versus IE
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Hi Lucy,

There are probably JavaScript event handlers on high level (parent) container elements of the content. This would be found in the JavaScript files in the source not the HTML source. Visual Event (http://www.sprymedia.co.uk/article/visual+event+2) is a bookmarklet that may visually identify the effected regions and indicate where in the source code the offending JavaScript files are located. This tool is not very screen reading software friendly. Manually you could look at all the files attached to the HTML source and search for event handlers (e.g., ".click(function()" for jQuery). Hope this helps. Thankx.

Sincerely,

Joe

Joe Humbert, Accessibility Specialist
UITS Adaptive Technology and Accessibility Centers
Indiana University, Indianapolis and Bloomington
535 W Michigan St. IT210 F
Indianapolis, IN 46202
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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Thu, Aug 22 2013 11:34AM
Subject: Re: testing and Firefox versus IE
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This happens when there is a click handler on a container element higher up
in the DOM tree.

This often happens within frameworks and libraries that assign placeholder
functions for customization, which is necessary to handle event bubbling.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lucy Greco" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 10:27 AM
Subject: [WebAIM] testing and Firefox versus IE

> Hello:
> I was just sent some simple pages to check and found something very
> strange. I started the testing and Firefox and was quite concerned
> because these pages were just simple text with a few links. However jaws
> continually read clickable throughout the page in Firefox and not at all
> in IE. From what I can tell there's nothing going on in the source code
> to do this. Any other testers out there got an idea. I can't share these
> pages as they are internal currently or I would. Thanks Lucy
>
> Lucia Greco
> Web Access Analyst
> IST-Campus Technology Services
> University of California, Berkeley
> (510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
> http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
> Follow me on twitter @accessaces
> > >

From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Thu, Aug 22 2013 12:20PM
Subject: Re: testing and Firefox versus IE
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Jaws seems to incorrectly interpret any content that sits inside a div
(even when it is just a div with a CSS class assigned to it for layout
purposes) as "clickable" in Firefox.
It does not do this in IE.
I am going to create an issue in the FS beta tester track (if one does
not exist already).
Cheers
-B
Birkir Gunnarsson
Accessibility Subject Matter Expert | Deque Systems

On 8/22/13, Bryan Garaventa < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> This happens when there is a click handler on a container element higher up
>
> in the DOM tree.
>
> This often happens within frameworks and libraries that assign placeholder
> functions for customization, which is necessary to handle event bubbling.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lucy Greco" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
> To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 10:27 AM
> Subject: [WebAIM] testing and Firefox versus IE
>
>
>> Hello:
>> I was just sent some simple pages to check and found something very
>> strange. I started the testing and Firefox and was quite concerned
>> because these pages were just simple text with a few links. However jaws
>> continually read clickable throughout the page in Firefox and not at all
>> in IE. From what I can tell there's nothing going on in the source code
>> to do this. Any other testers out there got an idea. I can't share
>> these
>> pages as they are internal currently or I would. Thanks Lucy
>>
>> Lucia Greco
>> Web Access Analyst
>> IST-Campus Technology Services
>> University of California, Berkeley
>> (510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
>> http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
>> Follow me on twitter @accessaces
>> >> >> >
> > > >

From: David Farough
Date: Thu, Aug 22 2013 12:23PM
Subject: Re: testing and Firefox versus IE
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Hi Lucy:
this is a Jaws setting which can be modified by the user.
Unfortunately most users will be unaware of this or where to find the
setting. I do not know why this does not occur with Internet explorer,
but it may be due to different jaws scripts being used for the different
browsers. it might also be due to differences in the information
provided to JAWS by the browser.

You can change the way Jaws handles such information by doing the
following.

1. press Jawskey (either insert or capslock) plus 6 on the top row of
numbers on the keyboard (not 6 on the number pad) to open settings
centre.
2. type Speech in the search box and then arrow down to "speech and
sound schemes"
3. press right arrow to open and then arrow down to modify schemes and
press space.

Here you will be able to view available schemes and modify any number
of settings that will dictate how Jaws responds to different controls
web content etc.

activate the modify scheme button to modify settings in the active
speech and sound scheme.

This opens a multi tab dialogue which provides settings available for
various content types.

For your purposes look at the HTML tab. particularly at "onclick".

Options are:
designate a sound to be played when this gains focus;
speak the attribute and then Jaws says "clickable" or any other text
you prefer;
Ignore to provide no feedback;

This is quite a complex feature and is not easily discoverable. There
is an entire module dedicated to the speech and sounds manager in the
training material provided by Freedom Scientific. It is my experience
that most people are not aware of how this can be used to enhance their
user experience. To obtain more information on this feature , go to the
Jaws help menu and then select training. then select Speech and sounds
manager from the list of files available. If this is not installed on
your machine, it will be downloaded and installed automatically.

David Farough
Application Accessibility Coordinator/coordonateur de l'accessibilité
Information Technology Services Directorate /
Direction des services d'information technologiques
Public Service Commission / Commission de la fonction publique
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Tel. / Tél: (613) 992-2779

From: Lucy Greco
Date: Thu, Aug 22 2013 12:28PM
Subject: Re: testing and Firefox versus IE
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Hello David:
I can't turn it off because I am testing many different sites that
actually need it on. But in this case I need to find a way to tell the devs
why it is happening and how to make it stop. But thanks that was a good
description of how to turn it on and off Lucy

Lucia Greco
Web Access Analyst
IST-Campus Technology Services
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
Follow me on twitter @accessaces

From: Lucy Greco
Date: Thu, Aug 22 2013 12:29PM
Subject: Re: testing and Firefox versus IE
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These are all leads I will follow each of them and get back to you when I
find out what it was happening in this case thanks to all of you

Lucia Greco
Web Access Analyst
IST-Campus Technology Services
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
Follow me on twitter @accessaces

From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Thu, Aug 22 2013 3:18PM
Subject: Re: testing and Firefox versus IE
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Have you tested it using the JAWS build released today? I heard that this
was just fixed.

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From: "Lucy Greco" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] testing and Firefox versus IE

> These are all leads I will follow each of them and get back to you when I
> find out what it was happening in this case thanks to all of you
>
> Lucia Greco
> Web Access Analyst
> IST-Campus Technology Services
> University of California, Berkeley
> (510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
> http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
> Follow me on twitter @accessaces
>
>
>

From: Michael Moore
Date: Fri, Aug 23 2013 10:22AM
Subject: Re: testing and Firefox versus IE
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Here is an except from an email that Eric Damery sent to the JAWS users
list:

"Mozilla Firefox
*Addressed a customer reported issue where JAWS was saying "clickable" at
the end of each line while reading.
*Improved navigating tree views on Web pages and announcing the expanded
and collapsed state of items."

The update that you need is JAWS 14.0.6004. I have been running it for
about a day and it seems to be working fine. The previous update seemed a
little buggy to me.

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Bryan Garaventa <
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> Have you tested it using the JAWS build released today? I heard that this
> was just fixed.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lucy Greco" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
> To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 11:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] testing and Firefox versus IE
>
>
> > These are all leads I will follow each of them and get back to you when
> I
> > find out what it was happening in this case thanks to all of you
> >
> > Lucia Greco
> > Web Access Analyst
> > IST-Campus Technology Services
> > University of California, Berkeley
> > (510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
> > http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
> > Follow me on twitter @accessaces
> >
> >
> >

From: Lucy Greco
Date: Fri, Aug 23 2013 7:04PM
Subject: Re: testing and Firefox versus IE
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Unfortunately I am running j-say and I can't update until late next week
but thanks Lucy

Lucia Greco
Web Access Analyst
IST-Campus Technology Services
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
Follow me on twitter @accessaces