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Re: Keyboard accessibility of abbreviations

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From: Moore,Michael (DARS)
Date: Apr 16, 2015 10:51AM

And while we are at it can we get more bug fixes reported to the screen reader folks to recognize and indicate content inside of <ins> and </del>. I have reported this for years to no effect.

Mike Moore
Accessibility Coordinator,
Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services
(512) 424-4159 (Office)
(512) 574-0091 (Cell)

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jim Allan
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 10:26 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Keyboard accessibility of abbreviations

I would also file a bug on all of the browsers. keyboard access to abbreviations and such should be a browser function. There should not be a need for thousands of authors to code some stuff that should be a function of the browser.
Jim

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 5:29 AM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> I'm currently trying to improve the keyboard accessibility of our
> website and recently decided to tackle abbreviations. According to the
> German accessibility regulations (and I'm sure there are equivalent
> success criteria in the WCAG) all functionality must be accessible by
> keyboard, and the expanded form of all abbreviations must be accessible to all users.
>
> To achieve this, we set up this javascript solution:
> https://jsfiddle.net/saenas/un40y5ey/
>
> But while it should fulfill the SC, we're not sure how good it is from
> a usability viewpoint. Since we provide medical information, there are
> a lot of abbreviations on our website, and implementing this solution
> (or any like it, really) forces keyboard users to tab a lot more.
> Additionally, while it is supposed to only expand the first instance
> of each abbreviation per page, this mechanism doesn't work for the
> navigation and the sidebar - so an abbreviation that is present in
> each element would be expanded three times.
> For reference, here is a link to one of our pages that contains LOTS
> of
> abbreviations: http://www.dimdi.de/static/de/klassi/index.htm
>
> That's why I'd like to ask keyboard users here: what do you think of
> such a solution? Do you think it would improve your experience or make it worse?
> Does anyone have suggestions for improvement?
>
> Thank you for your feedback!
> > > archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
> >



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