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Re: How to announce information outside table related to row?

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Mar 19, 2012 9:39AM

For screen reader users, you might want to announce the row and values
using an ARIA live region (state = polite).
The drawback is that it may not work well with older browsers and
screen readers, of course, and user may find it disruptive.
Is there anyother way this information could be conveyed to the user.
It seems a little difficult to announce the color state of one row
(and indicating information solely by color is a WCAG violation).
Of course one often has to work within limits and make the best of the
current situation, but I am just curious what kind of information is
going on here, and if there might be a more accessible and equally
efficient way to convey it to the user.
Cheers
-B

On 3/19/12, Angela French < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>
>>I have a fairly long table and one row is color coated. There is a legend
>> at the
>>bottom of the page where a visual user can see what the coloring represents
>>for the row. How would I convey this information to a screen reader user?
>
> Stella - there are some sighted people with a type of color blindness who
> may also no see your red. They will see it as gray. You might try some sort
> of type symbol you could use that is defined in the legend.
>