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From: GILLENWATER, ZOE M
Date: Tue, Nov 01 2011 9:33AM
Subject: screen reader headings lists
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Which screen readers allow a user to bring up a list of headings in the page?

JAWS: Insert + F6
NVDA: NVDA + F7 [Jared, you may want to add this to http://webaim.org/articles/nvda/ and http://webaim.org/resources/shortcuts/nvda]
VoiceOver: ?
Window-Eyes: ?

Thanks,
Zoe

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Tue, Nov 01 2011 10:21AM
Subject: Re: screen reader headings lists
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On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 9:32 AM, GILLENWATER, ZOE M < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Which screen readers allow a user to bring up a list of headings in the page?

In VoiceOver you would open the Rotor (Control + Option + U) and then
navigate left or right to the Headings list. In iOS devices, you would
perform the rotor action (twist two fingers left or right) to select
headings and then swipe up or down to navigate by headings.

> NVDA: NVDA + F7 [Jared, you may want to add this to http://webaim.org/articles/nvda/ and http://webaim.org/resources/shortcuts/nvda]

I updated these resources to indicate that the Elements List will show
links, headings, and landmarks.

Jared

From: deborah.kaplan@suberic.net
Date: Tue, Nov 01 2011 11:00AM
Subject: Re: screen reader headings lists
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Which browsers allow you to bring up a list of headings in the
page, if you don't have any screenreader?

As far as I can tell, Firefox can do it with the UIUC add-on.
Opera can navigate from header to header but can't give you a
list. Can any of the other browsers?

This comes up for me fairly frequently, actually, because if I am
posting on a blog site or someplace else where I don't control
the greater page framework, but I want to put headers within my
particular post, I want to know what is the level of header
directly above my post, so I can put the right levels within my
own text. I haven't figured out a way to do it outside of
Firefox.

-Deborah

From: Christophe Strobbe
Date: Wed, Nov 16 2011 10:12AM
Subject: Re: screen reader headings lists
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Hi,

Apparently, I missed this message two weeks ago...

At 16:32 1-11-2011, GILLENWATER, ZOE M wrote:
>Which screen readers allow a user to bring up a list of headings in the page?
>
>JAWS: Insert + F6
>NVDA: NVDA + F7 [Jared, you may want to add this to
>http://webaim.org/articles/nvda/ and
>http://webaim.org/resources/shortcuts/nvda]
>VoiceOver: ?
>Window-Eyes: ?

In Window-Eyes, you can press Insert + Tab to bring up the page
navigation dialog. You can then choose which type of elements you
want to see: the list of tables, the list of headings, etcetera.


Deborah Kaplan also asked: "Which browsers allow you to bring up a
list of headings in the
page, if you don't have any screenreader? As far as I can tell,
Firefox can do it with the UIUC add-on.
Opera can navigate from header to header but can't give you a list.
Can any of the other browsers?"

I raised this question a few months ago on the WAI-IG mailing list:
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2011JulSep/0177.html>;

Opera and UIUC's FAE extension for Firefox
<http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu/>; were the only solutions that came up.
(When using the FAE extension's shortcuts for heading navigation, you
need to configure it in a way that doesn't cause conflicts with
Firefox' Find-as-you-type feature.)
John Foliot also described a hack for Firefox, but this should be
used with caution:
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2011JulSep/0180.html>;.

Best regards,

Christophe




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From: Kevin Chao
Date: Wed, Nov 16 2011 1:09PM
Subject: Re: screen reader headings lists
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Mac OS X VoiceOver: VO-U for web rotor (different list/buffers for links, forms, landmark, etc.), VO-RIGHT to headings list, and can VO-UP/DOWN through list of headings, and VO-SPACE to move to.

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On Nov 16, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Christophe Strobbe < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:

Hi,

Apparently, I missed this message two weeks ago...

At 16:32 1-11-2011, GILLENWATER, ZOE M wrote:
> Which screen readers allow a user to bring up a list of headings in the page?
>
> JAWS: Insert + F6
> NVDA: NVDA + F7 [Jared, you may want to add this to
> http://webaim.org/articles/nvda/ and
> http://webaim.org/resources/shortcuts/nvda]
> VoiceOver: ?
> Window-Eyes: ?

In Window-Eyes, you can press Insert + Tab to bring up the page
navigation dialog. You can then choose which type of elements you
want to see: the list of tables, the list of headings, etcetera.


Deborah Kaplan also asked: "Which browsers allow you to bring up a
list of headings in the
page, if you don't have any screenreader? As far as I can tell,
Firefox can do it with the UIUC add-on.
Opera can navigate from header to header but can't give you a list.
Can any of the other browsers?"

I raised this question a few months ago on the WAI-IG mailing list:
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2011JulSep/0177.html>;

Opera and UIUC's FAE extension for Firefox
<http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu/>; were the only solutions that came up.
(When using the FAE extension's shortcuts for heading navigation, you
need to configure it in a way that doesn't cause conflicts with
Firefox' Find-as-you-type feature.)
John Foliot also described a hack for Firefox, but this should be
used with caution:
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2011JulSep/0180.html>;.

Best regards,

Christophe




--
Christophe Strobbe
K.U.Leuven - Dept. of Electrical Engineering - SCD
Research Group on Document Architectures
Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442
B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee
BELGIUM
tel: +32 16 32 85 51
http://www.docarch.be/
Twitter: @RabelaisA11y
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