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Re: Trying to find middle ground with a developer
From: Jonathan Cohn
Date: Aug 8, 2017 9:16PM
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Sarah,
Interesting about Macintosh only I didn't get that feeling when I was visiting Brandeis. In any case, Macintoshes VoiceOver has a idea of interacting and stop interacting that can be "interesting". It sounds like the menu might be considered a grouping by VoiceOver that one would need to interact with to read the individual items. You might be able to have a aria-label for the group, I have noticed some things like this on my sites but currently supporting VoiceOver is lower on my priorities so I have not tried to see how to control this.
I believe role=group or role=section causes VoiceOver to group items. Certainly one place you can see grouping in actin is on the FaceBook page where each posting is in its own article. I believe the BETA versions of Safari handle articles differently when working with VoiceOver.
Shalom,
Jonathan Cohn
Best wishes,
Jonathan Cohn
> On Aug 8, 2017, at 1:24 PM, Sarah Ferguson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Thanks Ben. I did get code for ESC. All of our students use MAC, so it's
> important that it works in VO, but I will see how it works in JAWS anyway.
> Thanks
>
> Sarah Ferguson
> Web Accessibility Specialist
> Department of Digital Communications
> Brandeis University *|* 781.736.4259
> www.brandeis.edu/web-accessibility
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Ben Regis < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> Just Google something like ... javascript esc close menu ... and you'll
>> see some examples on Stack Overflow - it depends on how the menu is set up
>> but it should hopefully be easy to implement.
>>
>> The HTML looks ok. I tried it using NVDA on various browsers in Windows
>> and it's working properly i.e. it reads out the alt text once, then the
>> caption once. You mentioned VoiceOver below - have you tried other screen
>> readers / browsers / operating systems - it may be a particular combination.
>>
>> Ben
>>
>>
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