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RE: Tool tips and screen readers

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From: Karl Groves
Date: Feb 7, 2006 3:15PM

This seems a lot like it is more a usability problem than an accessibility
one.
It looks like you're attempting to find "workarounds" for something that
really wouldn't be an issue if the IA was better.

Karl L. Groves
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of
> Joelle Tegwen
> Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 5:01 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Tool tips and screen readers
>
> Yeah, I'm not sure if we'll do it, but it's a lot of clicking
> to get just one piece of information so I wanted to be able
> to give people the information without making them go to the
> next page.
>
> Thanks for looking at it for me.
>
> Joelle
>
> Wayne Dick wrote:
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> >
> > Hi Joelle,
> >
> > I just tried it with MS IE mediated by IBM's WebAdapt2Me.
> It worked
> > pretty well. The hover stuff is quite odd.
> >
> > Sincerely
> >
> > Wayne Dick
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 13:29:25 -0600
> > Joelle Tegwen < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >
> >> I'm working on this page
> >> http://ici1.umn.edu/beta/nceo/tooltips/accommodations/response.asp
> >> (looks horrible in IE until you hover over enough of the oddly
> >> positioned links and I'm working on that. if you have any
> ideas I 'd
> >> love to hear it.) to create tool tips that show extra
> information and
> >> I'm wondering about screen readers and other accessibility.
> >>
> >> Someone suggested using <a title=""> instead and I'm wondering how
> >> that gets processed by the screen reader. Does it still
> read the link
> >> text?
> >> How about the method that I used. Does it read the
> information in the
> >> <span> at all? If not is there a way to get around this?
> >>
> >> I've been moving out of the css realm so I'm a little
> rusty and would
> >> appreciate any help or suggestions.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Joelle Tegwen
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> > Wayne Dick PhD
> > Chair Computer Engineering and Computer Science Director
> WebAdapt2Me
> > Project at CSULB
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