[Athen] testing with JAWS & NVDA

[Howard Kramer]

Sorry - meant to send this out to 2 specific people but welcome anyone who
has a response on these issues.

-Howard

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Howard Kramer <hkramer at colorado.edu> wrote:


> Hello All:

>

> This question will get into the technical weeds. I've been testing a few

> systems here at UCB with JAWS 15/I.E. 11 and NVDA (ver. 2014.4)/Firefox

> (ver. 35.01).

>

> The one issue I came across which is causing confusion is that NVDA does

> not read the underscore "_" character out unless you're on the word and

> issue the spell command. The underscore "_" is used in a number of foreign

> language exams as a "fill in the blank line" placeholder. JAWS reads the

> "_" fine, repeating the character only 3 or so times. Even when I turn on

> punctuation in NVDA to read "_" always, it still will only read the

> characters when a spell command is issued.

>

> Are either of you aware of this issue? Looking at the code I would judge

> the text with these characters accessible - yet NVDA seems to have a pretty

> hard time finding and reading these characters. Are you aware of an

> accessibility best practice that call for using something other than an

> underscore "_" for indicating a blank.

>

> Also, noticed that JAWS doesn't seem to work well with FF or is that my

> lack of skill with JAWS? NVDA seems to work very well with Firefox - this

> is the only glitch I've come across.

>

> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

>

> -Howard

>

>

>

> --

> Howard Kramer

> CO-PI - UDUC

> *Promoting the Integration of Universal Design into University Curricula*

> (UDUC)

> Lecturer, Cont. Ed - Evening & Cred Admin

> 303-492-8672

> cell: 720-351-8668

>




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Howard Kramer
CO-PI - UDUC
*Promoting the Integration of Universal Design into University Curricula*
(UDUC)
Lecturer, Cont. Ed - Evening & Cred Admin
303-492-8672
cell: 720-351-8668
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