[Athen] NVDA operation questions

Howard Kramer hkramer at ahead.org
Thu Jun 11 13:12:20 PDT 2015


Hi Peter,

It looks like I discovered the problem - I was using MS API ver 4 for the
synthesizer. When I switched to espeak or Protalker or even version 5 of MS
API the problem disappeared.

Thanks,
Howard

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Bossley, Peter A. (Pete) <bossley.5 at osu.edu

> wrote:



> Can you send me an example of a page that does this? Are the form fields

> in question labelled with placeholder text, thus perhaps it is disappearing

> when tabbing but not when moving using quick nav?

>

> That’s the only thing off the top of my head that could cause that.

>

>

>

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

> Behalf Of *Howard Kramer

> *Sent:* Thursday, June 11, 2015 2:43 PM

> *To:* WebAIM Discussion List; Access Technology Higher Education Network

> *Subject:* [Athen] NVDA operation questions

>

>

>

> Hello All:

>

>

>

> I've been using NVDA to test some pages and noticed some strange behavior

> (I'm using NVDA with the latest version of firefox btw - ver 38.0.5). NVDA

> does not read form labels when tabbing through a form, only when moving

> through a form (out of forms mode) using the F key. Also, for some links,

> when I press enter I get the context-menu, not an opening of the link.

> Anyone have any insight on this?

>

>

>

> Thanks,

>

> Howard

>

>

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