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JAWS is a computer screen reader program for Microsoft Windows.

JAWS (Job Access With Speech) is a computer screen reader program made by freedoms cientific for Microsoft Windows that allows blind and visually impaired users to read the screen either with a text-to-speech output.

According to May 2012 survey by WebAIM, JAWS is the most popular screen reader worldwide with 49.1% of survey participants using it as a primary screen reader.

Website: JAWS download page

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PDF generated using Itext is not read by JAWS

I am generating a PDF file using iText 5.5.3. The sample java code which I am using for generating the file is as follows: Rectangle pageConfig = PageSize.A4; Document doc = new Document(pageConfig); try { PdfWriter…
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How do you make JSSOR accessible?

JSSOR can pass HTML validation as noted http://www.jssor.com/development/pass-html-validation.html It provides key access but does it support full accessibility - for example, access with a screen reader?
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Does CEF3 supports JAWS and accessibility?

I am trying to use JAWS in my application which uses CEF3 as the embedded browser with .NET Wrapper Xilium which is using CEF3 3.2171.1875. But JAWS only partially reads the screen and does not do it as it does in a chrome browser. I am using the…
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Screen Reader not finding popUp

Currently trying to make a section of a site more readable to screen readers (Jaws, MacVoice over, ect). One of the buttons on the page generates a popup that in turn the user will need to be notified of, the problem is this popup is generated at…
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accessibility issue with JAWS reading entire unordered list items

I have a form which displays validation errors in ul li format, on submit the focus is forced on the first error message in li list. But jaws is reading the whole list instead of the focused text. Tabindex has been added to each li item, but on tab…
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resolving conflict between JAWS and key-press events for navigating large drop-down menus

I have been toiling over this for weeks now, researching solutions that others have developed for fully keyboard-navigable menus (both for sited users that have physical impairments and for non-sighted users that rely on assistive technology such as…
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Jaws 13 + IE 11: file input reading is weird

I have a screen where everything is fine until I encounter a file input. I am aware the way that IE rendered the file input makes it two tab stops but for some reason on the first stop Jaws insists on reading the label of the previous field. Jaws…
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get jaws to read all options in a select

Is there a simple way to get jaws to read all the options for a select, currently we have
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How to read jquery modal popup DIV elements in JAWS by skipping what it was reading?

we have a site that uses jQuery to display a modal popup. When user click on one of our buttons we are loading/binding the modal popup to a DIV then shows a DIV that contains the actual popup on top of the overlay. So how can i get focus inside…
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JAWS Screen reader - use of javascript confirmation dialog

We have a site which pops a javascript confirmation dialog when the user session is about to timeout, giving the user the option to extend their session or log out. We are now trying to get this working with JAWS. On pages which are long ie. it…
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Making richfaces select component accessible for JAWS using ARIA

i am trying to make the rich:select component (with manual input enabled) from richfaces accessible for handicapped users with WAI-ARIA attributes. I am adding the Attributes directly in the SelectRenderer.java Class. I am using: IE9 (this one is…
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Can we use role ="tablist" for div . As this is not properly working with Jaws. It looses the focus

Can we use role ="tablist" for div . As this is not properly working with Jaws. It looses the focus .

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JAWS Screen Reader and link to same page

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...
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JAWS not reading updated input value

I am having a button and when updated that value using jQuery JAWS is not able to read the updated value. It still reads the old value. $("#save").attr('value',…
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How should a screen reader read a website?

I'm doing an accessibility analysis of a site, and for the first time I'm using a screen reader (jaws) to verify that the site is readable. What I don't understand is whether the site is actually good. If I have jaws read the whole page, I noticed…
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