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Jaws screen reader announcing "blank" after each paragraph (self.Blind)
submitted by Rockclimber88
Hi all,
I'm optimizing a website for usage with a screen reader and we've encountered a bug(which may be not a bug at all).
When navigating using arrows after each paragraph the screen reader says "blank". We're testing in Jaws version 15.
Is this the way it should work or is it a bug of an old version of Jaws? Do you think we should hack it by replacing "P" tags with other tags or is this the way you've got used to hearing websites?
Thanks for help!
Pawel
I'm optimizing a website for usage with a screen reader and we've encountered a bug(which may be not a bug at all).
When navigating using arrows after each paragraph the screen reader says "blank". We're testing in Jaws version 15.
Is this the way it should work or is it a bug of an old version of Jaws? Do you think we should hack it by replacing "P" tags with other tags or is this the way you've got used to hearing websites?
Thanks for help!
Pawel
fastfinge 1 points 7y ago
That's the way it should work. JAWS indicates new paragraphs to the user by leaving a blank line between each one. If you test with $1 you should notice it doesn't do this. I strongly recommend testing with NVDA over JAWS: NVDA is free, open source, and much more up to date than the version of JAWS you're using.
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