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

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From: Stella Mudd
Date: Mar 19, 2012 12:06PM

@Angela - Good point. Will fight for this, but an unlikely win :(

@Birkir - I'm unsure of how a live region would work to associate content
in this particular situation. If I am down arrowing through a table, when
I get to this "special" row, how would I identify that HEY this row is this
"type" of row. Can you please explain further? Thanks so much.

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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.
> >