Re: [orca-list] problems with audible.com and latest orca

[covici ccs covici com]

Safari calls this a group and if you interact with the group,  it then
says preview clickable, if that helps anyone.

Jason White <jason jasonjgw net> wrote:

> covici ccs covici com <covici ccs covici com> wrote:
> > Thanks so much -- but then I wonder, how does a normal sighted user do
> > anything with this at all?   I wonder if you click that now text, does
> > preview change to something you can click on?  
>
> The appearance of the element is set in a style sheet so that it looks like a
> button. When a sighted user clicks on it, an event listener (presumably on an
> ancestor element somewhere in the HTML document) detects this and responds
> accordingly.
>
> I don't use this particular Web site; I'm just explaining how these custom
> controls are normally implemented. If there were a click event listener
> associated with the paragraph element which is acting as a button, Orca would
> at least recognize it as clickable. The fact that, according to your report,
> it doesn't, indicates that the event listener is somewhere higher up in the
> document tree. There is no reliable way for a screen reader such as Orca to
> handle this situation without help from ARIA attributes that must be provided
> by the Web application's developers.
>
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