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From: Tim Harshbarger
Date: Feb 19, 2013 7:41AM


I'm not aware of any differences in HTML5 that would make checkboxes inaccessible. At least, I don't think we have found any problems with just the standard checkbox.

Have you tried inspecting the DOM to see what might be going on?

If that also looks like it is good, then you probably want to test what the accessibility API is passing along to the AT.


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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Michael Burks
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 8:22 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] An intersting Problem

You make a good point.

However, I looked at the code, and do not see display: none. Also you can see
the checkboxes on the screen. There might be something in the CSS file, but I
cannot get to that, but I would think you would not be able to see the
checkboxes if it was display: none. I am wondering if it has to do with it
being HTML 5 and the support in the various AT we used to test it.

We did submit a question to one of the vendors but do not have an answer as yet.

Sincerely,

Mike Burks




From: Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Sent: Tue, February 19, 2013 9:10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] An intersting Problem

On 19/02/2013 13:50, Michael Burks wrote:
>
>
> I have an interesting problem.
>
> I am testing a page done in HTML 5. There are checkboxes which are not read
by
> screen readers as checkboxes. In fact it does not even recognize them as form
> fields. However when you turn off the CSS it works just fine. Has anyone
> encountered this situation?

Could it be that the CSS sets the actual checkboxes to display:none and
fakes the nice-looking ones with a simple div/span coupled with a click
behavior?

P
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