- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net>
- Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 13:43:25 -0400
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Cc: User Agent Guidelines Emailing List <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
aloha, again, charles! a further update on Opera -- as i noted in my compliance eval of the UAGL with HAL95, in the comments following checkpoint 1.1 [reference 1], Opera has difficulty identifying hyperlink text in ordered and unordered lists if any markup is used in the hyperlink text, in particular, ACRONYM, ABBR, or EM... this afternoon, i noticed a further anomaly -- when tabbing sequentially through links, i traversed a link whose hyperlink text i happen to know includes a word contained in <em> </em> -- moving forward through the links, the entire hyperlink text was voiced, but when i backtracked and moved through the links in reverse sequential order, only the word contained within the EM container was voiced... when i noticed this behavior, i was using JFW 3.3.26 -- i unloaded JFW and loaded HAL, and then tried navigating the ordered list again... things worked out similarly -- when i reached the link in which the EM container was used by navigating forward link-by-link, the entire hyperlink text was spoken, but when i moved back link-by-link, only the word contained in the EM container was spoken... a further anomaly is encountered when the first word in the hyperlink text is marked up -- such as:in the following example from <http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/books/index.html> in which underscores are used to indicate EM on and EM off: _Rebecca and Rowena_, a complete work by W.M .Thackeray when the link is selected by reverse sequential navigation of links, HAL repeated the hyperlink text from the previous link (i.e. the link which had just lost focus) in the following manner: "deselect [hyperlink text of previous link]" switching back to JFW, when traversing the page link-by-link in reverse order, using the "Q" keystroke, when i reached the link to the Thackeray book, JFW echoed absolutely nothing... and, upon screen-review of the hyperlink text, the entire line is spoken.. gregory. References [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/1999JulSep/0301.html -------------------------------------------------------- He that lives on Hope, dies farting -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1763 -------------------------------------------------------- Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net> President, WebMaster, & Minister of Propaganda, VICUG NYC <http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/vicug/> --------------------------------------------------------
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