<div dir="ltr">Thanks Peter.<div><br></div><div>-Howard</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Bossley, Peter A. (Pete) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bossley.5@osu.edu" target="_blank">bossley.5@osu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Howard Kramer<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 09, 2015 6:07 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Athen] testing with JAWS & NVDA<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal">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).<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<i>Promoting the Integration of Universal Design into University Curricula</i> (UDUC)<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div>Howard Kramer</div><div>Conference Coordinator</div><div>Accessing Higher Ground</div><div>303-492-8672</div><div>cell: 720-351-8668</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:14px;background-color:rgb(249,248,243)">AHEAD Association of Higher Education and Disability</span></div><div><br></div></div>
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