I feel like I’m losing my mind – maybe
because I’m hitting my head on the wall. On my work computer,
my primary browser s Chrome. I just got an upgrade to the
chromium Edge, so I’ll try that soon, but assume it’s similar
to Chrome. I also still have IE 11. I’ve noticed with two
different web applications that JAWS voices the same page
quite differently in when I use Chrome versus IE. I feel
stuck on doing what I need to do. Here are a couple
examples. I’d really like to understand from some of you web
developer/accessibility people what is going on.
Running Windows 10, JAWS 2020 (soon to be
2021).
Our time keeping system is not great with
JAWS. The company says it works with NVDA & Firefox,
neither of which I have on this laptop and if you use what
they call listview instead of the more intuitive table view
that my colleagues use. If I use IE 11, I can arrow down
through this listview and it reads a button for each date in
my pay period, followed by a button where I can code whether I
took a vacation day or such. This format makes some sense.
If I click the button for pay code, it seems to open a small
dialog associated to the corresponding date where is shows
each type of code an the number of hours, such as 8 hours of
vacation.
Because I’m having some issues with the
menu to pick a code type, I thought I’d go try it in Chrome.
In Chrome, the same page reads very differently. Arrowing
down through the page only has one option for each day of the
pay period and JAWS says its’ a menu. I have yet to figure
out how to access this menu, as all my normal tricks aren’t
working. I’ll likely call AIRA for visual help as a temporary
work around.
On SharePoint sites we use internally,
There are tabs at the top that bring up different ribbons of
buttons for editing and working with pages. In IE, these tabs
JAWS sees as Links and will bring up in the links list, then I
can use B to move to each button. In Chrome, these tab labels
do not come up as links and I have to find them in other ways
that are more clunky and seems to trigger Forms mode.
Is this expected? I’m surprised that the
same elements on a page would be rendered so differently in
different browsers. I’m really trying to embrace Chrome, but
find some web coding more clunky and in the case of my time
keeping system, not seemingly accessible. Would Firefox
really render this another way that could potentially work
better with JAWS? I’ll have to ask for an exception to get
Firefox installed and not even sure if it will be an
improvement.
Thoughts?
Robin Van Lant, Sr. Program Manager
- Sales Enablement
Key Equipment Finance
& Key Institutional Bank
720-304-1060
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