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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Apr 16, 2015 12:30PM

> ). I will repeat the tests with NVDA

NVDA in Firefox will announced pseudo content.

Jonathan


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-----Original Message-----
From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Moore,Michael (DARS)
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 2:13 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Keyboard accessibility of abbreviations

It's a nice idea but screen reading software (JAWS) does not pick up content added through before and after. I just confirmed running JFW 16 on FF latest release and IE 9 (don't ask). I will repeat the tests with NVDA, Window Eyes, and VoiceOver later but I don't hold out much hope. I tested with and without the media designation.

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

-----Original Message-----
From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Scott González
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 12:45 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Keyboard accessibility of abbreviations

Regarding <ins> and <del>, I've seen this CSS recommendation before:

@media braille, embossed, speech {
del:before { content: "Deleted: "; }
del:after { content: " (End of deletion.) "; } } del:hover { text-decoration: none; } ins { text-decoration: none; border-bottom: dashed green 2px; }


On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Moore,Michael (DARS) < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
> Behalf Of Jim Allan
> Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 10:26 AM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> 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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