Re: Slides of my WAI-ARIA presentation at SpainJS event

On Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:31:03 +0200, Emmanuelle Gutiérrez y Restrepo
<coordina@sidar.org> wrote:

> Good point Bryan,
>
>> "Proper scripting is always necessary toensure functionality for users  
>> that cannot benefit from ARIA."

> It is important to note that, for all developers.

Indeed.

> 2012/7/9 Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@whatsock.com>
>> Actually I ran across this not too long ago, where I had a Span tag  
>> with tabindex=0 and role=link, and tried using just a click event to  
>> handle the keypress.
>>
>> This worked fine for screen reader users, but failed completely for  
>> keyboard only users not using a screenreader.

On what browser(s)? Did you file bugs, or do you know of them for the  
relevant browsers? Maybe you could add them to the a11ybugs list of things  
to annoy browser makers about...

>>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>>  From: Steve Faulkner

>>>> I think pretty much all browsers allow
>>>>  activating click events with the keyboard, and will add things if  
>>>> you give them a tabindex. So adding specific keyboard >handling is  
>>>> probably redundant if you're just using click (mouseover, focus, and  
>>>> various other things are still not so good).
>>>
>>> I think you are right, but need to take into account keyboard  
>>> behaviour for things like buttons, which require activation on space  
>>> key press as well as enter key

Why? The specific mechanism for activation should be able to vary between  
browsers*. Authors trying to guess which keys I have available on whatever  
device is in front of me cause massive problems in general. It is true  
that not all users know how to use their browser, but actively making it  
not work isn't a very good solution and should only be done as a last  
resort.

*for usability the basics should be the same where possible - e.g. Opera  
should fix the fact that they use the tab key for form-only navigation and  
ctrl-arrows for "tabbing" through all active things, because although  
their overall keyboard navigation implementation was light years more  
advanced than anyone else, when there is a convention as strong as the tab  
key it is unhelpful not to follow it)

cheers

Chaals

>>> see  
>>> http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2011/04/html5-accessibility-chops-just-use-a-button/  
>>> for more details.
>>>
>>> regards
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
>>>  On 9 July 2012 11:47, Chaals McCathieNevile <w3b@chaals.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>   On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 22:29:30 +0200, Ramón Corominas  
>>>> <listas@ramoncorominas.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all, and apologies for cross-posting.
>>>>>
>>>>> Last     Saturday I gave a presentation in the SpainJS event about  
>>>>> creating     accessible apps using WAI-ARIA. The idea was to show JS  
>>>>> developers that     accessibility is an essential component to  
>>>>> achieve quality coding, and the     potential of ARIA to create more  
>>>>> accessible apps.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've uploaded the     slides here:
>>>>> http://ramoncorominas.com/spainjs/
>>>>
>>>> Nice   :)
>>>>    
>>>>
>>>>> Comments, suggestions or corrections are welcome     (smile)
>>>>
>>>> I think pretty much all browsers allow   activating click events with  
>>>> the keyboard, and will add things if you give   them a tabindex. So  
>>>> adding specific keyboard handling is probably redundant   if you're  
>>>> just using click (mouseover, focus, and various other things are 
>>>>    still not so good).
>>>>
>>>> I'd be interested in learning if that is not the   case...
>>>>
>>>> cheers
>>>>
>>>> Chaals
>>>>
>>>> --Chaals - standards   declaimer
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- with regards
>>>
>>> Steve Faulkner
>>> Technical Director - TPG
>>>
>>> www.paciellogroup.com | www.HTML5accessibility.com |  
>>> www.twitter.com/stevefaulkner
>>> HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives -  
>>> dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/
>>> Web Accessibility Toolbar -  
>>> www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
>>>
>>
>
>



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