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From: Jesse Hausler
Date: Jul 5, 2012 10:50AM

I've found that when properly using ARIA for keyboard accessible menus, AT such as Jaws and VoiceOver will announce the correct keyboard instructions. How much instruction one hears depends the verbosity settings.

Jesse


On 7/3/12 5:26 AM, "Joe Chidzik" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> A possible method to overcome the unfamiliarity is to provide pseudo
> tooltip [2] that is displayed when the first item receives focus. this can be
> used to include brief instructions to the user such as "use arrow keys to
> navigate" or some such.
>
>
> [1] http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/the-menu-element.html#the-menu-
> element
> [2] http://hanshillen.github.com/jqtest/#goto_tooltip
>
> regards
> SteveF

[Joe Chidzik]
Hi Steve,

Thanks for your reply and the links. Really like the idea of using pseudo tooltips to alert keyboard users with instructions, will see if I can get an example put together for this.

Cheers
Joe