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From: Heidi Jungel
Date: Wed, Nov 16 2011 4:36PM
Subject: Rich Text Box Controls with JAWS?
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Good Afternoon,
I am working with our developers on a rich text box control that will work with JAWS/NVDA and various other screen readers.
There have been some questions from my team on whether low vision/blind will actually use such features (I.e. Font sizing, bold, etc).
As a low vision person myself, I hardly use these. However, I am not sure I represent the "majority."
Does anyone know of accessible rich text box plugins or widgets that are accessible? Is this necessary to keep us in compliance?
Would this be "usable" for our low vision/blind users?
Thank you in advance for your insight!
From: Ryan Hemphill
Date: Wed, Nov 16 2011 7:06PM
Subject: Re: Rich Text Box Controls with JAWS?
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I would also take the less pronounced cases of low vision into account,
such as the quickly aging baby boomers. Still use a lot of computers, but
the text needs to be bigger. They would also represent a 'majority' of any
I can think of. On the other hand, it seems like you are talking more
about screen reader end of the spectrum.
This might not be what you were thinking about, but I have also noticed
that when there are focus issues, sometime the screen is shifted in a very
unhelpful way. In some cases, actually making it harder to view the
material that the accessibility was built in for in the first place. For a
partially sighted user, I could see that being a pain in the neck. The case
I have right now is a video player that has html buttons - but when you
start using the buttons, it can cause the screen to scroll down as well.
I'm rambling a bit at this point, but those are things that I thought of.
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Heidi Jungel < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >wrote:
> Good Afternoon,
> I am working with our developers on a rich text box control that will work
> with JAWS/NVDA and various other screen readers.
> There have been some questions from my team on whether low vision/blind
> will actually use such features (I.e. Font sizing, bold, etc).
> As a low vision person myself, I hardly use these. However, I am not sure
> I represent the "majority."
>
> Does anyone know of accessible rich text box plugins or widgets that are
> accessible? Is this necessary to keep us in compliance?
> Would this be "usable" for our low vision/blind users?
>
> Thank you in advance for your insight!
>
>
From: Lucy Greco
Date: Thu, Nov 17 2011 10:06AM
Subject: Re: Rich Text Box Controls with JAWS?
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We tend not to use these type of controls but I learn more and more every day we should
Lucy Greco
Assistive Technology Specialist
Disabled Student's Program UC Berkeley
(510) 643-7591
http://attlc.berkeley.edu
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
From: Nancy Johnson
Date: Fri, Nov 18 2011 5:30AM
Subject: Re: Rich Text Box Controls with JAWS?
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I think clients more and more want and expect these type of controls,
I would love to see a library of all controls such as these, auto
completes, calendar pickers etc. that work with assistive technology
and with keyboard only...
Nancy Johnson
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Lucy Greco < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> We tend not to use these type of controls but I learn more and more every day we should
>
> Lucy Greco
> Assistive Technology Specialist
> Disabled Student's Program UC Berkeley
> (510) 643-7591
> http://attlc.berkeley.edu
> http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
>
>
>