Screen reader accessibility [#1869340]

The JAWS screen reader cannot activate sub menu items in MSIE 8. Firefox 17 works as expected. Typically, activating a menu item with JAWS is done using either the Enter key or the Spacebar.

In my simple example I have a menu structure like:

Parent Menu 1
  |_ Child Menu 1
  |_ Child Menu 2
    |_ Sub Child Menu 1
    |_ Sub Child Menu 2

I can activate Child Menu 1 and 2, but none of the Sub Child items.

Configuration:

Drupal 7.17
MSIE 8.0.7601.17514
JAWS 14.0.1037 (latest) (also tested JAWS 13)
Superfish using default setup

Unfortunately, I have not been able to test in MSIE 9.

Comments

Comment #1

mehrpadin CreditAttribution: mehrpadin commented 2 January 2013 at 19:53

Hey Øivind,

Thank you so much :) added to my to-do list.

Comment #2

mehrpadin CreditAttribution: mehrpadin commented 22 October 2013 at 18:54

Hey there,

Sorry for the late reply! better late than never :) just tested with JAWS & IE8 (using Browser Mode of IE10 developers tools actually), looks like you're right, rather an IE bug though as it works fine elsewhere, even on IE9 & 10, on IE8 also it only didn't work at first, when I tried CTRL+ENTER it did work, then tried SHIFT+ENTER and IE crashed, since then it's working, with ENTER! no idea why, this is IE after all! and maybe it's only me.