- From: James Craig <work@cookiecrook.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 09:38:27 -0500
- To: Lauke PH <P.H.Lauke@salford.ac.uk>
- CC: "WAI Mailing list (E-mail)" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Lauke PH wrote: > 1) obviously, screenreaders will announce that the user is currently > in a form. The tc textarea will be announced as "Edit - Terms and Conditions". > This can be slightly irritating. Moreover, the version of JAWS I used to test > this (4.02) did not announce that it was in fact a read only edit box, so when > entering the textarea, it will prompt the user to "type in text"...which obviously > they can't. Not sure how other screenreaders handle this... Does anyone else know if other screen readers notify a user that an edit field is disabled or read-only? If not, this seems like a problem with the readers, not the pages. Just to clarify, I agree that the Terms content should be in a div, not a textarea. I am just wondering about legitimate uses of disabled and read-only form fields. Thanks, James Craig -- http://www.cookiecrook.com/
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