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NVDA does not allow activating links that embed off-screen text in Firefox #801

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Reported by vtsaran on 2010-08-02 00:42
With the following code in place (extracted from http://finance.yahoo.com/news)

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where the text inside the tag is positioned off-screen and is shown when the link gains keyboard focus, NVDA does not allow activating such a link with an ENTER or a SPACE bar key.
Interestingly enough, performing an accDoDefaultAction by pressing NVDA+NUM_ENTER activates the link fine.
This is tested with Firefox 3.6.8. The same code works great in IE8.

To repro:

  1. Open http://finance.yahoo.com/news.
  2. Pick an H3 heading called "Investing Ideas & Strategies" as an example.
    The link in question is the "close category" link.

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