- From: Gemayel, Ziad <ZGemayel@lighthouse.org>
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:03:48 -0500
- To: 'Juan Ulloa' <julloa@bcc.ctc.edu>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
The problem that screen reader users face is that they can't identify each frame and navigate between them efficiently if they are not coded properly. In addition to what Juan mentioned, I would also add a meaningful <TITLE> to the individual frame pages (make it identical to the TITLE in the frameset). This is because Jaws and Window-Eyes for example look at frames in a slightly different way. This process ensures that both users have the same experience when navigating the site. The screen reader users can pull up a list of frames and navigate to the one they want or simply browse through the frames one after the other by hitting the m key (Jaws) or Ctrl+Tab (W-E). Otherwise, they can just navigate the page linearly and every time they reach a frame the screen reader will alert them (frame "title" start) and then alert them again when they reach the end of it (frame "title" end). Ziad Gemayel Lighthouse International Accessibility Consulting and Testing Solutions (ACTS) unit -----Original Message----- From: Juan Ulloa [mailto:julloa@bcc.ctc.edu] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 1:39 PM To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org Subject: RE: Using Frames - what problems do screen readers have? ...Regarding frames, it is my understanding that all you need to do to make the frameset accessible is to use the title attribute on the frameset for each frame. But I have no idea how screen readers interpret this. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Title of Your Page</TITLE> </HEAD> <FRAMESET cols="10%, 90%" TITLE="Our library of electronic documents"> <FRAME SRC="nav.html" title="Navigation bar"> <FRAME SRC="doc.html" title="Documents"> </FRAMESET> Juan C. Ulloa ************************************************************************************************** The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential. It is intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager or the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to anyone or make copies. ** eSafe scanned this email for viruses, vandals and malicious content ** **************************************************************************************************
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