- From: Alan Chuter <achuter@technosite.es>
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:47:30 +0200
- To: "WAI Interest Group" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
- Cc: Jonathan Chacón <jchacon@technosite.es>
Using Linux Gnome + Orca [1], and Firefox 3 beta on the test page, there is no information about the superscript or subscript. Testing done by my colleague Jonathan Chacón. [1] http://live.gnome.org/Orca best regards, -- Alan Chuter Accessibility Consultant Technosite (Fundación ONCE) achuter@technosite.es www.technosite.es Tel. +34 91 121 03 35 Skype: achuter1 If you are unable to reply to this message because of spam filter, try my alternative address achuter.technosite@yahoo.com. Si no puede contestar a este mensaje por culpa del filtro de spam, intente con mi dirección alternativa achuter.technosite@yahoo.com. En Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:39:06 +0200, Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be> escribió: > > Hi, > > At 15:33 15/09/2007, Steven Faulkner wrote: >> Using window eyes 5.5 with IE7 >> >> the results are similar to jaws and voiceover: >> "it just reads the >> superscripts and subscripts as seperated blocks with no particular >> disctinction or announcement of how they differ." >> >> I had a look at the various settings in JAWS/Window Eyes to see if I >> could get them to announce the sub/superscript differently, to no avail. > > I have updated the test page at > <http://tinyurl.com/2qll7h>http://tinyurl.com/2qll7h with test results > from Joshue O'Connor, Sailesh Panchang, Charles McCathieNevile and Steve > Faulkner. I will probably get some feedback from Linux users later this > week. Hopefully, I will also get results from people using HAL, IBM Home > Page Reader and other AT. > > Best regards, > > Christophe > > >> On 13/09/2007, Christophe Strobbe >> <<mailto:christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be> >> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I recently read in a report on accessibility of mathematics and >> science that screen readers can't tell the difference between sub and >> sup in HTML, so a<sup>n</sup> and a<sub>n</sub> are both rendered the >> same on a Braille display, namely as "an". >> >> I would like to collect some more data on the support of sub and sup >> by screen readers and talking browsers and I have put together a >> small test page for this purpose: < >> <http://tinyurl.com/2qll7h>http://tinyurl.com/2qll7h>. The >> page contains five examples of superscript and subscript and a few >> combinations of these. >> >> With Fire Vox, the code samples given above are read as an emphatic >> "an". The output for the other expressions is also misleading. I >> would appreciate it if users of screen readers and talking browsers >> could tell me what their systems output for each of the five >> examples. I will then add the test results to the test page. >> >> Best regards, >> Christophe >> >> -- >> with regards >> >> Steve Faulkner >> Technical Director - TPG Europe >> Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium >> >> <http://www.paciellogroup.com>www.paciellogroup.com | www.wat-c.org >> Web Accessibility Toolbar - >> <http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html>http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html >
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