JAWS Screen Reader and link to same page

Question

I'm not even sure that JAWS can do this task but I thought I would ask anyways. I have a link on an HTML page that points to a footnote at the bottom of the page. My page looks like this:

some HTML...

<a href='http://www.blah.com.au/controller#footnote1'>

...more HTML...

<p id='footnote1'>
    footnote text
</p>

...more HTML

This all works fine, except when I run JAWS over the page. The problem is that that the screen reader begins to read out from the paragraph with id of footnote1, but it does not stop at the end of the paragraph. It continues to read out the rest of the page. Is there a way you can tell JAWS to just read the <p> in question?

Answer 1

I have spoken to two accessibility experts and done a fair bit of Googling and I have come to the conclusion that JAWS can not perform this task.