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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Nov 15, 2011 8:09AM

Thanks, I just gave it a spin, and it's working for me, anyone else noticing
this? Granted I have IE8 with JAWS12/13 installed, so feedback would be
helpful.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Birkir R. Gunnarsson" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 6:06 AM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] How to Make a Facebook Chat Widget
AutomaticallyAccessible


> Mr Bryan
>
> Great idea as always. I would say great implementation as well,
> however, there is a bit of a problem, I am knit picky I know.
> I go to the demo page (with Jaws 13 and IE9) .. type in my name as
> instructed and hit "start Chat".
> I get the message "loading, please wait" .. and I wait .... and I wait
> .... and I wait ..., and I am still waiting. ;)
> Seems like this is not working at the moment, at least with this
> software combination.
> Cheers
> -B
>
> On 11/15/11, Bryan Garaventa < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> This is something I've been thinking about off and on over the last
>> couple
>> years. My family uses Facebook chat, so I figured it would be pretty cool
>> to
>> be able to do the same using the website. Not really as it turned out.
>> Conceptually it wouldn't take too much to make it work though, so about
>> six
>> months ago, I wrote detailed instructions, lovingly crafted with fabulous
>> pros, showing the Facebook folks how this could be accomplished with
>> minimal
>> effort and maximum impact for everyone.
>>
>> I thought it was brilliant; a true masterpiece;
>> they ignored me of course...
>>
>> So, I decided to do it myself anyway, and here it is! Just as
>> described...
>>
>> The Accessible Chat Dialog Module is a Facebook-style UI component that
>> renders an automatically accessible chat dialog for screen reader and
>> keyboard only users.
>> Instructions:
>> 1) Type your name and activate the Start Chat button to open the chat
>> dialog,
>> then type into the Message field and press Enter to submit a chat
>> message.
>> 2) Mouse users can drag the chat window to a new fixed location by
>> holding
>> down the left-mouse button on any textual area of the chat dialog.
>> 3) New messages will automatically be announced to screen reader users
>> when
>> they arrive.
>> 4) Screen reader users can press Ctrl+` to hear the last 5 messages
>> announced when the Message text field has focus.
>>
>> The ability to drag the chat dialog to a new location on the viewport
>> isn't
>> something Facebook provides, but I thought it would be a nice touch
>> anyway... :)
>>
>> Now, this is important, the chat dialog is a live server application, so
>> anything you type will be seen by every person around the world who
>> happens
>> to have the dialog open at the same time, regardless whether it is
>> running
>> from the website or locally using the download, so please play nicely...
>>
>> Demo: http://whatsock.com/modules/accessible_chat_dialog_module/demo.htm
>>
>> All the best,
>> Bryan
>>