RE: moving text and Assistive Technology

Charles, when I went to the page at

http://www.bendigo2004.com/

JAWS 5.1 continually repeated the word "edit" as it read down the page (this is the way JAWS signals the presence of an <input> of type="text").  However, as far as I can tell there is only one text input element on the page (it does not have a label). The repetition may be an artifact of the moving text elsewhere on the page-- I don't know how else to account for it.

As for the moving text itself, I'm not certain whether JAWS reported it or not-- I did hear some things that sounded as if they might be coming from a news-ticker sort of thing-- there were numbers like 22.04 and 19-something, if that helps you determine whether what I heard was indeed the moving text.

John


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-----Original Message-----
From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Léonie Watson
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 4:48 am
To: Charles McCathieNevile; w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject: Re: moving text and Assistive Technology



Charles,

    Jaws v5.1 does appear to have a problem with this page, although I'm not 
certain of a direct relationship with the moving content.

    From the point on the page immediately below the submit button of the 
search form, to the graphical link with the file path: images/victorianlogo, 
Jaws treats the entire content as a text input form field.
    It is possible to activate Forms Mode with Jaws, but not possible to 
input any text having done so.

    The effect of this is that Jaws speaks the word "edit" on every line as 
I arrow up and down the page. Conversely, if I use the Jaws quick nav key 
"f" to cycle through form fields on a page, the only fields acknowledged are 
the text input and submit button of the search form.

Regards,
Léonie.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles McCathieNevile" <charles@sidar.org>
To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 4:19 AM
Subject: moving text and Assistive Technology


>
> Hi folks,
>
> I am evaluating the Bendigo Commenwealth Student Games 2004 site as a 
> favour, and I came across something that made me think.
>
> Checkpoint 8.1 requires that scripts (and things) are directly 
> accessible. I recall that there were problems with the Tiflowin screen 
> reader (once widely used in spanish, now apparently common only in 
> South America) refocusing whenever things moved on the screen.
>
> I understand the problems caused by movement in terms of tracking 
> things, but I am wondering if anyone can tell me of any named 
> assistive technology that breaks down when something moves. In this 
> case the effect is achieved by javascript being used to continually 
> change a set of CSS position properties in a style attribute - the 
> page in question is http://www.bendigo2004.com/
>
> For extra value an idea of who is using the particular technology 
> would be useful.
>
> I am not interested in general answers - I understand the general 
> issues. I am looking for any specific data that can be empirically 
> tested and verified.
>
> (This is the stuff that EuroAccessibility was doing - it seems a shame 
> that they have stopped).
>
> -- 
> Charles McCathieNevile           charles@sidar.org
>                 http://www.sidar.org
>
>
>
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles McCathieNevile" <charles@sidar.org>
To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 4:19 AM
Subject: moving text and Assistive Technology


>
> Hi folks,
>
> I am evaluating the Bendigo Commenwealth Student Games 2004 site as a 
> favour, and I came across something that made me think.
>
> Checkpoint 8.1 requires that scripts (and things) are directly 
> accessible. I recall that there were problems with the Tiflowin screen 
> reader (once widely used in spanish, now apparently common only in 
> South America) refocusing whenever things moved on the screen.
>
> I understand the problems caused by movement in terms of tracking 
> things, but I am wondering if anyone can tell me of any named 
> assistive technology that breaks down when something moves. In this 
> case the effect is achieved by javascript being used to continually 
> change a set of CSS position properties in a style attribute - the 
> page in question is http://www.bendigo2004.com/
>
> For extra value an idea of who is using the particular technology 
> would be useful.
>
> I am not interested in general answers - I understand the general 
> issues. I am looking for any specific data that can be empirically 
> tested and verified.
>
> (This is the stuff that EuroAccessibility was doing - it seems a shame 
> that they have stopped).
>
> -- 
> Charles McCathieNevile           charles@sidar.org
>                 http://www.sidar.org
>
>
>

Received on Thursday, 9 December 2004 13:45:06 UTC