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Re: ARIA at www.vons.com ?

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From: Randi
Date: May 7, 2009 8:25AM

I just looked at it briefly with Voiceover and clicked on the grocery
delivery link and its definitely strange. There were two frames, one
was a search and one was a log in frame. Then it had a really odd
frame that just kept repeating a link "new header dot ask" or
something, but I couldn't interact with the text to spell it out.
Didn't look at anything else since you mentioned the ordering. Strange
indeed. Hopefully others can shed light on the programming and Aria.

Randi

On 5/6/09, Patrick Burke < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>>Hi everyone,
>
> Here's a curious item for all of you. ...:
>
> US supermarket site www.vons.com is generally an accessibility
> disaster area (esp the safeway.com online ordering section). However,
> there is an ARIA AlertDialog in the code on the Vons.com homepage.
>
> Unfortunately I can't figure out what the dialog is supposed to do. ...
>
> In IE6 I get a notification that there is an ARIA Alert Dialog
> (though of course it doesn't work).
>
> IE7 & FF3 both show me a
> "activityi;src=1411188;type=relau807;cat=homep746;ord=8896695796452"
> frame with no content in it.
>
> I'm running Jaws 10 (the now ancient Build 512), but I thought it
> would at least work with Firefox. (I don't have IE8 to test at the moment.)
>
> So, if anyone could test www.vons.com with IE8 & screen reader, or
> could rummage in the source code, I would be very interested to know
> your findings.
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick
>
>
> --
> Patrick J. Burke
>
> Coordinator
> UCLA Disabilities &
> Computing Program
>
> Phone: 310 206-6004
> E-mail: burke <at> ucla. edu
>
>