1400434 - JAWS Screenreader does not read selected text from a hide/show region

Status: NEW

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect, P3)

Description

[u554753]

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Navigate to http://oaa-accessibility.org/example/21
2. Click "Show Message"
3. Tab to the panel with the newly shown region and use screenreader function to read text.

Expected Result:
The JAWS screenreader successfully reads the text.

Actual Result:
Nothing is read by the JAWS screenreader.

Comment 1

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

Note that with NVDA, this works nicely. I can tab to any of the "Show message" buttons, press Space, and NVDA's virtual cursor is being placed on the "Message x region", and the message is read. I can then tab or DownArrow to the Close button, and when pressing Enter, focus and NVDA's virtual cursor return to the button that showed the message.

Comment 2

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

Marco I'm going to speculate this is something we want to fix but not urgent? If this is a real regression for regular Jaws usage patterns please upgrade to P2.

Comment 3

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

I cannot reproduce this with Firefox 60 + JAWS 2018.1805.33.