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Re: improved select boxes - still accessible

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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Aug 20, 2012 2:47PM

One obvious thing, do you know if speech activation software triggers only
the keypress event, or does it support keydown as well?

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>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
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>