I've tried setting the 'title' and 'alt' attributes of dijit.layout.AccordionPane. JAWS doesn't read out anything from those attributes. Any solution to that?
Thank you.
Accordion Pane doesn't support screen reading
Submitted by almfwcna on Fri, 02/15/2008 - 18:18.
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Accordion Pane and screen reading
JAWS does not by default speak the title attributes of items. However, the accordion pane does work with JAWS when you are in virtual PC mode off (this is toggled with insert-z). The accordion pane has been tagged with the ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) tab container roles and JAWS will speak, "tab x" where x is the order of the focused tab in the list of tabs and also speak the title of the tab. There is no role of "accordion" pane so the tab container roles are used and the keyboard support in accordion and tab container are the same. Pressing left/right or up/down when focus is on a tab or accordion pane will move to the prev/next tab or accordion pane. There is a recorded demo of the Dijit Mail demo application (which includes the accordion pane) being accessed with JAWS available from this page: http://www.weba11y.com/demos/index.html.