[Athen] testing with JAWS & NVDA

[Howard Kramer]

Thanks Peter.

-Howard

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Bossley, Peter A. (Pete) <bossley.5 at osu.edu

> wrote:



>  Howard,

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> In our experience, JAWS support for firefox is not full-featured like it’s

> support for IE is; NVDA is the opposite, working much better with FF than

> IE.

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> *From:* athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] *On

> Behalf Of *Howard Kramer

> *Sent:* Monday, February 09, 2015 6:07 PM

> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network

> *Subject:* [Athen] testing with JAWS & NVDA

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> Hello All:

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> 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).

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

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> -Howard

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