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From: Ramya Sethuraman
Date: Fri, Aug 17 2012 3:21PM
Subject: Reg dropdownbuttons and screen readers.
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Hi,
I have come across this issue several times in the past and thought I'd get
this clarified once and for all! The example I am looking at is the dijit
dropdownbutton: http://livedocs.dojotoolkit.org/dijit/form/DropDownButton
When I access the first example using just the keyboard and press enter on
the hello dropdown button, I am able to use my up and down arrow keys to
navigate through the menu items which is good. When I open the menu, focus
automatically lands on the first menuitem.
Now, when I test the same button on FF 14.0.1 and Jaws 13, I can press
enter to launch the dropdown menu but now I am unable to use my arrow keys
to navigate. I have to tab one more time for focus to land on the first
menuitem and at that point, I can use my up/down arrow keys to navigate.
Why is the behavior different when I use a screen reader? Is it because
Jaws is capturing the up/down arrow keys? Do I need to set an aria-role to
tell Jaws not to capture the up/down arrow keys? Thanks!
Ramya
From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Fri, Aug 17 2012 4:20PM
Subject: Re: Reg dropdownbuttons and screen readers.
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Is this not accessible in IE? I'm trying to compare the two, but get the
following.
Webpage error details
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0;
.NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR
3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
Timestamp: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:17:05 UTC
Message: Access is denied.
Line: 305
Char: 5
Code: 0
URI: http://livedocs.dojotoolkit.org/_static/dojo/dojo.js
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ramya Sethuraman" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 2:21 PM
Subject: [WebAIM] Reg dropdownbuttons and screen readers.
> Hi,
>
> I have come across this issue several times in the past and thought I'd
> get
> this clarified once and for all! The example I am looking at is the dijit
> dropdownbutton: http://livedocs.dojotoolkit.org/dijit/form/DropDownButton
>
> When I access the first example using just the keyboard and press enter on
> the hello dropdown button, I am able to use my up and down arrow keys to
> navigate through the menu items which is good. When I open the menu, focus
> automatically lands on the first menuitem.
>
> Now, when I test the same button on FF 14.0.1 and Jaws 13, I can press
> enter to launch the dropdown menu but now I am unable to use my arrow keys
> to navigate. I have to tab one more time for focus to land on the first
> menuitem and at that point, I can use my up/down arrow keys to navigate.
>
> Why is the behavior different when I use a screen reader? Is it because
> Jaws is capturing the up/down arrow keys? Do I need to set an aria-role to
> tell Jaws not to capture the up/down arrow keys? Thanks!
>
> Ramya
> > >
From: Ramya Sethuraman
Date: Fri, Aug 17 2012 4:36PM
Subject: Re: Reg dropdownbuttons and screen readers.
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Hmm...I can access it in IE 8 although the 2 tests I did were on FF. Thanks!
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Bryan Garaventa <
= EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Is this not accessible in IE? I'm trying to compare the two, but get the
> following.
>
> Webpage error details
>
> User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0;
> .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR
> 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
> Timestamp: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:17:05 UTC
>
>
> Message: Access is denied.
>
> Line: 305
> Char: 5
> Code: 0
> URI: http://livedocs.dojotoolkit.org/_static/dojo/dojo.js
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ramya Sethuraman" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
> To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 2:21 PM
> Subject: [WebAIM] Reg dropdownbuttons and screen readers.
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have come across this issue several times in the past and thought I'd
> > get
> > this clarified once and for all! The example I am looking at is the dijit
> > dropdownbutton:
> http://livedocs.dojotoolkit.org/dijit/form/DropDownButton
> >
> > When I access the first example using just the keyboard and press enter
> on
> > the hello dropdown button, I am able to use my up and down arrow keys to
> > navigate through the menu items which is good. When I open the menu,
> focus
> > automatically lands on the first menuitem.
> >
> > Now, when I test the same button on FF 14.0.1 and Jaws 13, I can press
> > enter to launch the dropdown menu but now I am unable to use my arrow
> keys
> > to navigate. I have to tab one more time for focus to land on the first
> > menuitem and at that point, I can use my up/down arrow keys to navigate.
> >
> > Why is the behavior different when I use a screen reader? Is it because
> > Jaws is capturing the up/down arrow keys? Do I need to set an aria-role
> to
> > tell Jaws not to capture the up/down arrow keys? Thanks!
> >
> > Ramya
> > > > > > >
> > > >
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