[access-uk] Re: definition list in JAWS HTML

  • From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:58:33 +0000

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 11:51 +0000, Adrian Higginbotham wrote:
> Jaws has long failed to correctly support definition lists. Something I
> for one flagged with FS as far back as version 5 if not earlier but
> which they have done nothing about - obviously not headline grabbing
> enough.  It is this failure of support which results in the quirky jfw
> output when within dl lists rather than poor implementation of the tag
> itself all be it that the tag is being used not for the purpose for
> which it were intended.

Out of interest, how do you think JAWS /should/ handle DL generally and
especially in this instance? (Sadly Freedom Scientific has no public
bug-tracker.) Do other screen readers do it better?

--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

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