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From: Sarah Ferguson
Date: Aug 9, 2017 8:20AM

Thanks, Jonathan,

Yes, I do know about the grouping feature in VO. Our other sites utilize
this much better. The developer is already looking into why this site will
not read the groups for that menu. I will pass your comment on to her.

Students are allowed to use any kind of computer, but the Student Services
office recommends MACs for students with disabilities. I'm not part of that
decision and I have mixed feelings on it :)

Thanks,
Sarah

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 11:16 PM, Jonathan Cohn < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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
> >>
> >>