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Re: Tool tips and screen readers

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From: Joelle Tegwen
Date: Feb 7, 2006 3:30PM

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,
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> I just tried it with MS IE mediated by IBM's WebAdapt2Me. It worked
> pretty well. The hover stuff is quite odd.
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> Sincerely
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> Wayne Dick
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> On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 13:29:25 -0600
> Joelle Tegwen < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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?
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>> 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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