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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....
Hi Lauren,
I assume you would have shared here if there had been any movement on making scrolling panels keyboard accessible. I have been experimenting with using JavaScript to force this by applying a tabIndex to the appropriate div's, but this still doesn't completely resolve the issue, so I'm hoping the developers can get on this soon.
I would also hope that the developers take the keyboard (and specifically keyboard scrolling) into account when the scrolling panel contains objects in the tab order, such as buttons. Currently, even if I enable scrolling through JavaScript as described above, when I tab to a button, the scrolling stops.
The scrolling panel should behave more like an iframe, essentially.
Hi Mark,
Thank you for sharing these insights with us! I will be sure that your comments are added to our report. Our team is actively working on a fix for this issue, and we will reach back out as soon as we can share an update!
