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From: Steve Faulkner
Date: Jul 5, 2012 11:26AM

Hi Jesse, the issue is not for screen reader users that support ARIA, its
for keyboard only users that do not use AT.

regards
steve

On 5 July 2012 17:50, Jesse Hausler < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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
> > > >
> > > >



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Steve Faulkner
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