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From: Patrick Burke
Date: Oct 25, 2010 2:51PM

Not much to go on, but the critical code in question is apparently
drawn in from somewhere else & does not show up with View Source. The
whole thing is a wild festival of Javascript.

The only clue I can give is that "Post" & "Cancel" are announced (by
Jaws in Windows) as buttons. "Follow" & "Echo" (with its sublist of
options nearby) are only reported as "clickable", but not as buttons
or links. So it would appear that the Echo system has defined mouse
events for these items & left out keyboard access. Device-independent
event handlers are usually best.

Patrick

At 01:28 PM 10/25/2010, Carin Headrick wrote:
>You said you also had trouble hitting reply from within a thread, right?
>
>I'm one of the blog authors, and I have felt helpless to help her, so
>for now, we've been sending her comments to her manually by email. But
>human errors do tend to happen.
>
>Really hopin' for some info so we can also pass it on to Echo since we
>kinda pay for their service.
>
>Carin
>
>On 25/10/2010 11:42 AM, Ro wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > If there are any Apple users with Leopard or Snow, can I get your help
> > with something? One of my favorite blogs uses Echo's commenting
> > system. To follow comments, you can just click "follow", enter your
> > email, and then you can reply to comments by email. It's really nice,
> > but since one of the latest Safari updates, the word "follow" does
> > nothing. I've tried using group mode in Leopard to no avail.
> >
> > The Echo CEO actually suggested I get a PC user to enter my email
> > address for me. Wow. He says it works from on his Mac OS 10, which is
> > great but he's not using Voiceover. Can someone go check it out, just
> > arrow down until you find the comment field, keep going until you hear
> > "follow", click it and see if you get an option to enter an email? I
> > want to know if this is something weird with my computer alone before
> > I respond to the Echo guy some more.
> >
> > If you're so inclined also, if you think you might know what the
> > problem is and if there's a fix, that would be great too because then
> > I could tell them.
> >
> > I was hoping I'd never have to bring this here, but I don't know what
> > else to do.
> >
> > Here's a post to test the comments:
> >
> > http://vomitcomet.blogspot.com/2010/10/i-got-world-series-i-wanted.html
> >
> > Thanks in advance...
> >
> > ~Randi and Guide Dog Jayden
> >
> > http://raynaadi.blogspot.com/


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Patrick J. Burke

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