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Re: ARIA toggle and keyboard accessible scrollable div controls have been added to AccDC Bootstrap.

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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Jan 14, 2013 8:49AM

I didn't have it installed at the time, but it does work in JAWS 14 from
prior testing though.


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From: "Don Mauck" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 5:49 AM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] ARIA toggle and keyboard accessible scrollable div
controls have been added to AccDC Bootstrap.


> I'm curious why this wasn't tested with JAWS 14?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryan Garaventa [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 7:46 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: [WebAIM] ARIA toggle and keyboard accessible scrollable div
> controls have been added to AccDC Bootstrap.
>
> In case it's of interest, ARIA Toggle controls have been added to AccDC
> Bootstrap R1.2 at
> http://whatsock.com/bootstrap
> Which can be used to automate keyboard and screen reader accessibility for
> toggle controls. The functionality was tested using IE 8 and 9, Firefox,
> Chrome, and Safari using JAWS 12 and 13, NVDA, and Voiceover.
>
> Also, keyboard accessible scrollable div controls are similarly available,
> which automatically calculate the offset difference of the first child
> node, and adds the following key commands: Left / Up / Right / PageUp /
> PageDown / Home / End for keyboard only users.
>
> Additionally, a recursive processing bug for modals, popups, and tooltips,
> has been fixed. This would occur when activating a popup for example, then
> clicking another tab without closing it, then when returning to the Popup
> tab, the content would still be loaded, even though the object was
> referencing a different element. This is now handled automatically within
> the bootstrap module however.
>
> Lastly, the Accordion module has been updated to provide smoother feedback
> for screen reader users by surrounding the content panel with an ARIA
> region, which occurs automatically.
> > > > > >