- From: John M Slatin <john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu>
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:46:25 -0600
- To: <public-wcag-teamb@w3.org>
- Cc: "Gregg Vanderheiden" <gv@trace.wisc.edu>
I just did a quick check to assure myself that JAWS recognizes and reports text colors. It *does not* report the color! For example, the page at http://www.joleschgroup.com/promo/narms/contact.jsp Shows required fields in red, using CSS (class="reqtitle" vs. class="notreqtitle"). For the text beside the Last name field, JAWS (Ins+F) reports: "Font is verdana, Helvetica, sans serif 8 pt text alignment: left align, center of cell, top of cell, comma (yes, it says the *word* comma!). Then it stops. Behavior on the form at http://ontcurl.com/index.html?loc=9&lsubnav=95&main=info&url=clubupdate_ org&upper=title Is the same. Of course this is a user agent flaw-- JAWS is obviously capable of accessing the CSS information, but either it doesn't check for color on Web pages (it *does* report it in MS Word!) or the JAWS code is broken. SC 1.3.2 (L1) says: <blockquote> 1.3.2 When information is conveyed by color, the color can be programmatically determined or the information is also conveyed through another means that does not depend on the user's ability to differentiate colors. </blockquote> But (at least for now) simply making the color programmatically determined doesn't actually work for people using JAWS. I don't have Window-Eyes or Home Page Reader at home (so much for *Home* page reader<grin>) so can't do further checking. Ugh. John "Good design is accessible design." Dr. John M. Slatin, Director Accessibility Institute University of Texas at Austin FAC 248C 1 University Station G9600 Austin, TX 78712 ph 512-495-4288, fax 512-495-4524 email jslatin@mail.utexas.edu Web http://www.utexas.edu/research/accessibility
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