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From: James Nurthen
Date: Aug 8, 2012 10:45AM

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Ryan Hemphill <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>
> In most cases I would not be coding up tables or things like that any
> differently - it's when we start getting into the interactive aspects.
> Jumping back and forth through focus management techniques. Being able
> to drop focus onto modal windows and use it in several different methods
> without the screen reader going up in flames is a perfect example. I
> actually had to take the AEGIS plugin (considered fully accessible, for
> those who don't know) for modal/dialog and revamp it so that it would
> behave like a typical modal window and work across multiple screen readers.
>

Have you given this feedback to Hans Hillen? I'm sure he would appreciate
hearing it. I'd also be really interested.
I'd also love to hear about your solution to the virtual buffer issue which
still seems to hit us every now and again after page updates.


> Part of fixing it required me to actually remove the role="dialog"
> attribute because it seriously screwed up our ability to extend its usage.
> ARIA actually REDUCED the accessibility of the widget. Imagine that! And
> it didn't have the same effects on different SRs (NVDA and JAWS) until we
> played around with it for some time. I can tell you some other bugs that
> would have been introduced if we'd kept the native version, one of which
> has the potential to break the whole site and kill the virtual buffer
> permanently in JAWS, by the way.


I'd love to hear about this but I'm not sure this is the right venue for
that discussion. Are you on the free-aria list. That might be a good venue
to try to have some more technical discussions about some of these things
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/free-aria