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Re: can screen reader user please test expanding content?

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From: Patrick Burke
Date: Apr 7, 2011 2:39PM

Hi Greg,

I'm another screen reader user, somewhat late to
this party ... (Jaws 12, Firefox 4.)

The biggest difference on the two U of Illinois
pages is that the ARIA markup lets the screen
reading software know that these are not normal
links (see Birkir's original comments). The first
page identifies Crust, Veggies etc. as "tabs".
The second example includes a message such as
"Delivery Tab, expanded Delivery", announcing the
state of each tab. (Although at first "collapsed
crust" sounds like a baking mishap, not a markup status message...)

The keyboard commands described on the example
pages work to allow extra maneuvering within the tab sets.

Hope that's useful,

Patrick

At 08:23 AM 4/6/2011, Greg Gamble wrote:
>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
>p - 360-704-4376
> think before printing
>
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