- From: Steven Dale <sdale@stevendale.com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:13:37 -0500 (EST)
- To: <charles@sidar.org>
- Cc: <Francois.Jordaan@wheel.co.uk>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Dont forget to label the frames as Chaals eluded to such as navigation, content etc. so that the screen reader user can tell what is in a particular frame. Charles McCathieNevile said: > > Actually, lots of things about frames are good - unfortunately there > are a few architectural problems with them. > > In this case I would rely on the users. In common setups like IE/Jaws > the users will be able to move between frames as a function of the user > agent. In systems that don't present all the frames (Lynx, Amaya, etc) > the user will be offered a choice of which frame they want to see (so > they can choose the navigation frame, or the content frame, or > whatever), or they can just work with the noframes version. > > Cheers > > Chaals > > On 1 Apr 2004, at 01:37, Francois Jordaan wrote: > >> >> Simple question for the benefit of screen reader users and >> keyboard-navigators: >> >> Can I provide a link from one frame into another that doesn't involve >> re-loading the second frame? >> >> I'm providing a "jump to content" link at the start of the page, only >> the >> content happens to be in another frame. (I know frames are bad; it >> happens >> to be unavoidable on this one particular page.) >> >> At the moment my best idea is to put the anchor (the target of the <a >> href="#content"> link) at the *end* of the first frame. I expect the >> screen >> reader to then announce the start of the next frame, titled "Content". >> That >> sounds OK. >> >> But then, what do I do to let the user return to the navigation in the >> previous frame? >> >> francois >> >> Wheel Group, Beaumont House, Kensington Village, Avonmore Road, >> London W14 >> 8TS >> www.wheel.co.uk >> >> >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> This e-mail has been scanned for viruses by MessageLabs. >> >> > -- > Charles McCathieNevile Fundación Sidar > charles@sidar.org http://www.sidar.org
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