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Scroll text and Accessibility
Hi,
We noticed today that JAWS reads scroll text a little bit weirdly. I have large amount of text in a scroll panel. When the tab key is applied on the scroll panel, the text is read out by JAWS....
I have a similar issue. JAWS will read everything inside the scrolling panel when tabbed to instead of reading the assigned alt-text. Next it will re-read the text inside the scrolling panel when the text is tabbed to. I unchecked the Alt Text for the text box, but then JAWS doesn’t see it at all. I also tried putting the text at the end of the tabbing order but JAWS still read it after reading everything in the scrolling panel.
Any ideas on how to have the text only read once?
Hi there, Steven! If you leave the scrolling panel object in the tab order window, JAWS will read the contents of the panel. In this linked example I mocked up, I removed the scrolling panel from tab order. Instead, the focus goes directly to the first item in the scrolling panel, and tabbing through reads each item individually.
Would that setup work for you?
Ms. Horn,
Unfortunately, taking the Scrolling Panel out of the Tab Order does not allow a sighted keyboard only user to scroll through the information.
Thanks anyway,
Steve
