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Re: can screen reader user please test expanding content?

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Apr 7, 2011 3:45PM

Hi Angela
I have to dig up the Display:None answer some time, not 100% sure what
you are asking for there.
The biggest drawback, as previously noted, is that I cannot see that
these links are anything special and I can easily see a user hittig
nter on them, no new page opens, and then user decides the links do
not do anything.
May be the link text can say (hit enter to expand), or you could use
ARIA to make the content descriptions better.
I concurr with Patrick on the ARIA sample. Use of ARIA is not too
widespread yet, I have a feeling it is certainly not fully and
consistently implemented in many browsers or screen readers, but we
have to start somewhere.
Thank you
-Birkir

On 4/7/11, Patrick Burke < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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
>>ï think before printing
>>
>>
>>