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Re: improved select boxes - still accessible

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From: deborah.kaplan
Date: Aug 20, 2012 2:20PM

I could not get this to work with NaturallySpeaking. (and unlike
Gary, I can get drop-down menus to work with DNS; I have had
luck with the "expand list" command. Gary, have you tried that?)

-Deborah

On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Bryan Garaventa wrote:

> Can you do me a favor? If you go to the following demo using Dragon
> http://whatsock.com/modules/aria_sortable_listbox_module/demo.htm
>
> Can you use voice commands to tab to the Sort button, which is a standard
> button and should be actionable saying 'press enter'.
>
> The list should then be generated dynamically, and focus set on the first
> option. So from there you could say the following:
>
> 'press up' or 'press down' will navigate up and down the list
> 'press home' or 'press end' will jump to the start or end
> 'press space' will toggle an item to grab or drop
> 'press enter' will save the changes and rerender the list
>
> I'm totally blind, so this is difficult for me to confirm. I'm curious if
> this will work though.
>
>
>
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> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 11:36 AM
> Subject: RE: [WebAIM] improved select boxes - still accessible
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>
> Thanks, Bryan, for bringing this up - Dragon (and speech recognition
> software, in general). I can honestly say that I've never gotten a
> drop-down menu to work with DNS. Radio buttons and Check boxes work just
> fine for me, but not drop-down menus. I can land on the list, and often it
> even opens up. But actually scrolling down and selecting my choice - not a
> happening thing. If anyone can instruct me on what I'm doing wrong, I'd
> sure appreciate it!
>
> Gary
>
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