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Re: Is this slider accessible to screenreader users?

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From: ckrugman@sbcglobal.net
Date: Dec 7, 2009 4:15PM

I was just thinking the same. It could be quite time consuming If I listened
to all the > signs that JAWS would read if I would let it.
Chuck
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geof Collis" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Is this slider accessible to screenreader users?


> Perhaps someone could direct their energies on making this email list
> more accessible for us screen reader users, I'm finding I've got to
> do a lotof searching just to find some of your answers amongst all
> the greater signs.
>
> cheers
>
> Geof
>
> At 12:39 PM 12/7/2009, you wrote:
>>Al Sparber wrote:
>> > From: "Christian Heilmann" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>> >
>> >
>> >> Keith Parks wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> On Dec 7, 2009, at 8:53 AM, Al Sparber wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>> Hi Randi,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Try this page and let me know if you are able to read all of the
>> >>>> content:
>> >>>>
>> http://www.projectseven.com/products/tools/horizontal-glider/accessibility/base.htm
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>> The "Poems" tab goes to Poems, but the "Novels" tab brings you to
>> >>> "Movies", and the "Movies" tab goes to nowhere, in Safari at least.
>> >>>
>> >>> But at least it *is* keyboard navigable.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >> To a degree. It is tab-able but not really usable with a keyboard. The
>> >> cursor keys is what makes it a proper tab control.
>> >>
>> >> If we want to use ARIA and we want to build interfaces that are the
>> >> same
>> >> as rich client interfaces we also have to get away from the idea of
>> >> tabbing as the way to access data on the web. Todd Kloots did some
>> >> amazing research work in this area:
>> >>
>> >> http://ericmiraglia.com/blog/?p=132
>> >>
>> >> The roaming tabindex for example makes sure you can access a massive
>> >> menu without tabbing 200 times:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/#focus_tabindex
>> >> http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2009/02/23/managing-focus/
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > To be honest, we're not completely sold on ARIA at this point in
>> time. It's
>> > interesting to view as a future solution. Our accessibility
>> testing group is
>> > small, but comprised of people who have real disabilities and we tend
>> > to
>> > keep things as simple as possible. While our results tend to
>> sometimes be at
>> > odds with specifications authors, they do seem to work well for actual
>> > users. But then again we are not sold on AJAX either. If we were, we
>> > would
>> > likely be far more compelled to embrace ARIA and the like.
>> >
>> > Our "carousel" was just released so we are still fleshing out potential
>> > accessibility updates. Hopefully, any tweaks we make can be as simple
>> > as
>> > possible :-)
>> >
>> >
>>Great. We throw all this information above out for free and write the
>>explanations for exactly that use case. There is not much sense in 40
>>people all doing the same research and arguing results. But then again
>>this is the impression I get of the accessibility world as a whole as
>>otherwise we'd have much more open source products.
>>
>>