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Re: please test expanding content areas

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From: Patrick Burke
Date: Feb 7, 2012 4:27PM

We're rapidly moving beyond my expertise, but check out this article.
It seems to have the recipe for this situation:
http://weba.im/3lo
(from Filament Group)

Patrick
Patrick
At 02:41 PM 2/7/2012, Angela French wrote:
>Is there Aria I might incorporate into the hidden content that,
>could make this work? I have not travelled down the Aria path yet.
>Angela
>
> >
> >Perhaps I would read through the whole page once, not "clicking" on
> >anything. Then I might navigate back by heading, going to the headings that
> >were reported as links ("Sounds interesting!..."), & then try
> hitting Enter or
> >Space. Hearing no indication that these links were doing anything, I might
> >give up on the page.
> >
> >The main point being, if there is no indication (focus change etc) that new
> >content has appeared, screen reader users may not find it, even if
> it's sitting
> >"right there!". This may change as people get more accustomed to dynamic
> >content, "links" not actually being links to new pages, etc. But
> for the time
> >being we need some kind of tip-off.
> >
> >Hope that's clearer,
> >>Patrick
> >
> >