[nfbcs] Fwd: Getting JAWS to read via JavaScript

[Michael Babcock]

I thought i would pass this message onto this list; please contact this guy off list with any tips as he’s not to the best of my knowledge on this list.
thanks
> From: Bill Hubbard BHubbard at Saba.com


Michael Babcock
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> From: Bill Hubbard <BHubbard at Saba.com>
> Subject: Getting JAWS to read via JavaScript
> Date: January 28, 2014 at 3:25:05 PM MST
> To: "jfw at lists.the-jdh.com" <jfw at lists.the-jdh.com>
> Reply-To: "The Jaws for Windows support list." <jfw at lists.the-jdh.com>
> 
> I am new to JAWS, yet have been tasked to make some things work with JAWS in our Web-based application. But I'm having great difficulty.
> 
> One problem is with an Ajax-based wizard in an overlay. How to get JAWS to read the content when the overlay opens and following every Ajax update?
> 
> Also, we had problems with some elements that were not links <a> or buttons <button> in the markup, but other elements with event handlers attached, so we were not able to tab to them. In one case, I converted some of these to links and I could tab to it, but there was nothing for JAWS to read, and so a request came in to make JAWS read something different, so I added a title attribute. But after that (that's ALL I added), I could not tab to the link. In fact, I couldn't tab to ANY links on the page. Then I saw some unrelated issue and fixed that, and then ALL the links on the page would read the title text from this one link on every Tab. I don't get it!
> 
> The other problem I am having is with drop-down picker components. It is very intermittent. When I can tab to the control, I can hit the down arrow to open it, but when I try to use the arrows to select from the drop-down menu, it will move once, beep, then the next arrow takes me to the next or previous input field on the form! Argh!  Why does JAWS usurp the normal keystroke behavior for components, and how do I get them to work properly?
> 
> By the way, I'm in an ExtJS 4.0.5 environment.
> 
> Bill
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