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From: Joshue O Connor
Date: Mon, Feb 21 2011 8:09AM
Subject: Sharepoint 2010 Accessibility
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Hi y'all,
Have any of you experience with 'Accessibility Mode' in Sharepoint 2010?
I am interested in particular to hear from screen reader users who
currently work with it.
Any comments on it however are welcome, but I explicitly wanted to do a
head check on exactly what 'Accessibility Mode' does. FWIW, it seems to
me that the application performs better (is more accessible) with it off..
Go Microsoft..
Cheers
Josh
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From: Margit Link-Rodrigue
Date: Wed, Feb 23 2011 5:51AM
Subject: Re: Sharepoint 2010 Accessibility
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This is not an answer to your question, but an add-on since I already have a
very specific question regarding SP2010 accessibility. Microsoft advertises
that they adopted WCAG 2.0 in their latest version. Looking at a demo site
at www.wssdemo.com, I tabbed through the interface and got stuck in the
global site navigation. While the Site Actions menu in the top left corner
expands by clicking the Enter key, the same isn't true for the drop-down
menus in the navigation. For example, the fourth menu item "Sharepoint
Sites" has a drop-down submenu which I wasn't able to open with any key
combination. It shouldn't pose a problem to screen readers since the focus
is set correctly on the submenu item, it just doesn't display on the page.
Therefore calling the menu accessible is stretching it in my opinion. If
anyone has some insight to share, I would greatly appreciate it.
-Margit
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Joshue O Connor < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >wrote:
> Hi y'all,
>
> Have any of you experience with 'Accessibility Mode' in Sharepoint 2010?
> I am interested in particular to hear from screen reader users who
> currently work with it.
>
> Any comments on it however are welcome, but I explicitly wanted to do a
> head check on exactly what 'Accessibility Mode' does. FWIW, it seems to
> me that the application performs better (is more accessible) with it off..
>
> Go Microsoft..
>
> Cheers
>
> Josh
>
> NCBI: Celebrating 80 Years
>
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From: Joshue O Connor
Date: Wed, Feb 23 2011 7:39AM
Subject: Re: Sharepoint 2010 Accessibility
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Hi Margit,
Many thanks for your feedback, and I would also like to hear more if
anyone has more to add. Regarding my initial question, FWIW, now I have
done some more testing, I found the 'Accessibility Mode' to be pretty
useless, in fact maybe worse than useless. This is because with the
'A11y mode' enabled certain parts of the ribbon controls (at least in my
testing) seemed to become inaccessible/invisible/were taken out
completely from the screen reader/document tree.
This effectively rendered controls that were initially accessible with
'A11y mode' off, inaccessible with 'A11y mode' on. Hence my desire for
feedback.
On a positive note, many of the ribbon controls etc were already
accessible, and the interface has a *lot* of WAI-ARIA functionality for
various controls. I just don't know if this mode switching is to do with
triggering application mode on or off with the screen reader (which
brings it's own challenges) or what, but I don't think it is.
It looked like the context sensitive switching of the ribbon could be
problematic also, as context seems to switch on mouse focus IIRC, and
the screen reader user could be caught out but I am not really sure if
this is a real issue for a screen reader user, or just merely
presentational.
I often find that when apps have bespoke 'modes' etc it takes time for
the user to 'get' them..so if I am missing something, will someone
please enlighten me?
Thanks
Josh
NCBI: Celebrating 80 Years
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From: Margit Link-Rodrigue
Date: Wed, Feb 23 2011 8:27AM
Subject: Re: Sharepoint 2010 Accessibility
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You might be able to get some answers about your questions regarding the
"more accessible mode" issues you found by posting on the SharePoint Team
blog. Tim McConnell is listed as a contact there for accessibility related
topics. It might be worth posting a comment there and see if you get a
response. The post I am referring to is:
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=431.
-Margit
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Joshue O Connor < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >wrote:
> Hi Margit,
>
> Many thanks for your feedback, and I would also like to hear more if
> anyone has more to add. Regarding my initial question, FWIW, now I have
> done some more testing, I found the 'Accessibility Mode' to be pretty
> useless, in fact maybe worse than useless. This is because with the
> 'A11y mode' enabled certain parts of the ribbon controls (at least in my
> testing) seemed to become inaccessible/invisible/were taken out
> completely from the screen reader/document tree.
>
> This effectively rendered controls that were initially accessible with
> 'A11y mode' off, inaccessible with 'A11y mode' on. Hence my desire for
> feedback.
>
> On a positive note, many of the ribbon controls etc were already
> accessible, and the interface has a *lot* of WAI-ARIA functionality for
> various controls. I just don't know if this mode switching is to do with
> triggering application mode on or off with the screen reader (which
> brings it's own challenges) or what, but I don't think it is.
>
> It looked like the context sensitive switching of the ribbon could be
> problematic also, as context seems to switch on mouse focus IIRC, and
> the screen reader user could be caught out but I am not really sure if
> this is a real issue for a screen reader user, or just merely
> presentational.
>
> I often find that when apps have bespoke 'modes' etc it takes time for
> the user to 'get' them..so if I am missing something, will someone
> please enlighten me?
>
> Thanks
>
> Josh
>
>
> NCBI: Celebrating 80 Years
>
> ********************************************************************
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From: Joshue O Connor
Date: Thu, Feb 24 2011 2:57AM
Subject: Re: Sharepoint 2010 Accessibility
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On 23/02/2011 15:28, Margit Link-Rodrigue wrote:
> You might be able to get some answers about your questions regarding the
> "more accessible mode" issues you found by posting on the SharePoint Team
> blog. Tim McConnell is listed as a contact there for accessibility related
> topics. It might be worth posting a comment there
Good idea! Done.
Cheers
Josh
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