I have an HTML page that has a lot of content. When I open it with a screen reader (specifically, JAWS) without doing anything but entering the URL, the screen reader starts to read all of the content on the site. The reader stops if I interrupt it, or if it reaches the end of the page. How can I prevent it from doing so, and make sure that it will read content only after interaction with the user (e.g. pressing arrow keys or Tab, clicking the mouse, ...) rather than automatically?
(I do not want to use aria-hidden, because I want the elements to be visible for the reader.)
Details:
Browser: IE8, IE9 and Firefox v34
JAWS: V15.0
The page has one div that has the aria-live attribute, but it is only for one title, not for the whole page.
This is not an HTML page issue. That's what JAWS almost always does with HTML pages. For example, when I went to stackoverflow.com just now, JAWS said:
page has 100 headings and 768 links //began reading the page
Don't worry about it. It's not related to your page. Besides, it only takes a control key to stop it.