Re: Voiceover detection in JavaScript

Passthrough is useful on lots of apps including Contacts, where one uses 
it to jump by letter through the contact list using the right-hand side of 
the screen. So while I'd call it an advanced gesture, I certainly have 
many clients who use it. The issue I encountered when I tried this with 
the slider is that the values were incremented visually but I did not get 
the percentage spoken by VO. In other words, in Contacts, I hear "b", "c", 
etc as I move through what is essentially a slider control. But here, 
"20%" etc.,  was not read out.

Michael Gower
i b m  i n t e r a c t i v e

1803 Douglas Street, Victoria, BC  V8T 5C3
gowerm@ca.ibm.com
voice: (250) 220-1146 * cel: (250) 661-0098 *  fax: (250) 220-8034



From:   Alastair Campbell <alastc@gmail.com>
To:     Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@whatsock.com>, 
Cc:     WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Date:   04/09/2013 01:45 AM
Subject:        Re: Voiceover detection in JavaScript



I tried a simpler slider implementation here:
http://oaa-accessibility.org/examplep/slider1/

I'm fairly convinced that VO on iOS doesn't support the ARIA slider, I 
think their implementation of the dial & heading short cuts (which use 
up/down gestures) clash, and the value is not adjusted when you use up and 
down.

Apart form the pass through (which is a pretty techie way of doing it!) 
the expected way doesn't seem to work, so this is VO's issue. NB: I did 
try selecting 'value' from the dial, which didn't work either.

David, do you know of somewhere to bug about that at the moment?