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From: Tom Kort
Date: Jun 5, 2008 9:00PM

Hello all, first of all, I am working on the accessibility of trip planners. Does anyone know
anyone working on something like this?
In my work I am currently using the Job Access to Work (JAWS) screen reader program on the Vancouver
translink.bc.ca website.
When I access the trip planner for Translink I get something like:
A readout of the top navigation bar ("link graphic bus schedules nav slash five", etc)
A readout of the main graphic ("link graphic South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority")
A readout of the bottom navigation bar ("link graphic home nav slash five", etc)
....readout of some more graphics...
A readout of the table name
A readout of the headers ("link graphic trip options, link graphic start, link graphic trip end", etc.)
A readout of the first table row:
"Detail Expo Line 5 15p 5 19p 4min 00 point 62 k m dollar 2 point 5 0"
The output I ultimately want is
"Press for Details, Transit Line Expo Line, Trip Start 5 15pm, Trip End 5 19pm, Duration 4 min, Transfers 0, Walk 0 point 62km, dollar 2 point 5 0"


Question.
Is there a good method to produce my desired speech output?
Can JAWS or any other popular screen reader program filter out the "p" on the time (5:19p)?
Can JAWS read the column of a table as it traverses a row?
One weird thing happens... When I get the trip planner results, sometimes I get the readout
of the previous page, instead of the current page, Why is this?
 
Thank you. cheers.
 
-Michael Ohene