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No impression of many keystrokes jaws accessibility
I have event listener for keydown and i want to check for arrowup and arrowdown press key event. However when jaws is on, these keys are ignored. Only few key worked like ctrl, alt, tab etc.
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Footer in the PDF created using iTextPDF is not accessible
I have created a simple PDF here to explain the issue I am facing
import com.itextpdf.io.font.FontConstants;
import com.itextpdf.io.image.ImageDataFactory;
import com.itextpdf.kernel.events....
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JAWS - Avoid same page link announcement
I am using anchor tag with href="#dashboard" in Jaws and Chrome it is announcing "Dashboard same page link", but I want to avoid "same page link" announcement here ...
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What determines where the focus goes back to when clicking on a browser's back button?
As far as I can tell, it is in part determined by the HTML spec's History API1, specifically the value of history.scrollRestoration. Quoting the HTML spec's scroll restoration mode paragraph:
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How do I get JAWS to connect cells to headers in a Word/PDF document?
I am currently testing out a PDF document that has 8 columns and 2 rows, where the top row is the header row, and the second row is the main data connected to the top row. I need to to connect the ...
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JAWS reading disabled span element
I am working with Angular js code which will enable a radio button dynamically in a span.
`<span data-ng-if="(!object.enabled || (form && !form.enabled))" class="rf-...
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JAWS 2024 Need to remove word "region" while getting region names
I am working in JAWS 2024, I have created documents regions with name "Question" and "Exhibit". While using shortcut key (insert+alt+r) it is showing the name like "Question ...
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JAWS screen reader does not read headings/paragraph text in vscode webview
I'm building a vscode extension which has multiple webviews that are expected to be accessible with JAWS screen reader. While JAWS correctly reads the information of tab-able controls in the UI along ...
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JAWS is not reading list inside role="textbox" aria-readonly="true"
I am using JAWS v2023.2212.23
I have a div container inside that we have paragraph and lists. My requirement is that when I focus on my div container jaws should read the entire block.
With ...
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Blue accessibility frame around elements in Slack after using JAWS screen reared
I had a screen reader JAWS installed for some time, then I properly uninstalled it from the All Apps setting in Windows.
After that when Grammarly (text corrector) is launched, there's a blue box ...
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Do screen readers understand HTML escape characters (like " for double quotes)?
I'm updating a aria-label value method that's currently escaping the value to be safely used in a HTML element attribute.
So it would convert <span> abc" to <span> abc"...
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Trap ARROW KEY navigation on modal using Screen Readers
I'm dealing with an issue trying to trap the navigation inside a modal using TAB/ARROW keys.
Was using a function like this to avoid the keys action to being triggered:
component....
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JAWS is not announcing Button state collapsed /expanded for a menu button when aria-haspopup="menu"
I have a menu button like this
<app-my-buton [matMenuTriggerFor]="menu" tabindex="0" role="button" aria-label="Open Content"></app-my-buton>
but ...
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JAWS not reading the screen automatically after windows is launched
I am using JAWS 2023, JAWS is not reading the contents of the webpage when I launch the application, I know we can use sayAll command but as per my requirement JAWS has to read the contents on webpage ...
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There should be only one H1 heading on a single page
I was told by the accessibility team that there should be only one H1 on a single page.
Ref on the internet: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/Heading_Elements#...
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