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From: Greg Gamble
Date: Apr 6, 2011 9:30AM

Hello All,

I'm the one who asked Angela to send a request for the Screen reads help ( no account at the time )

I have a couple of questions, sorry if they've been answered before ...

So when a person using a screen reader encounters an accordion type of control, where the content is hidden from a sited user but is still visible in the source, they cannot see inside of them or know when they are opening? Reading up on support for ARIA lead me to the following ...

I found this on handling some of the issues that have been brought up:
http://test.cita.illinois.edu/aria/tabpanel/tabpanel1.php

http://test.cita.illinois.edu/aria/tabpanel/tabpanel2.php

... do these examples work better than the original example, as far as letting a screen reader user know what is happening?

http://www.sohtanaka.com/web-design/examples/toggle/bad.htm

Greg Gamble
SBCTC - Olympia | Information Services
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