- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <oedipus@hicom.net>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:09:13 -0400
- To: "Gez Lemon" <gez.lemon@gmail.com>, "Ben Maurer" <bmaurer@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Cc: wai-xtech@w3.org
aloha, all ---------------------------------------------------------------- CONSERVATIVE, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. -- Ambrose Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory J. Rosmaita, oedipus@hicom.net Camera Obscura: http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Original Message ----------- From: "Gez Lemon" <gez.lemon@gmail.com> To: "Ben Maurer" <bmaurer@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>, wai-xtech@w3.org Sent: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:06:59 +0100 Subject: Re: reCAPTCHA implementation problems > Hi Ben, > > On 12/07/07, Ben Maurer <bmaurer@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > <quote> > I'd love to hear comments about how the different screen reading > products handle Javascript. As was mentioned in my reply to > Gregory, when working with T.V. Raman on his windows computer, > we found that the screen reader didn't see the javascript > generated content (despite the fact that Javascript was actually > executing, as I could see on the visual copy of the page). T.V. > mentioned that he was unfamiliar with the Windows screen reading > technology, and that he wasn't sure what the issue was. </quote> > > Some screen readers, such as JAWS, take a snapshot of a web page > when it's loaded so that they can use their own cursors to allow > users to interact with the content. The snapshot usually isn't > updated until a navigate event is raised, although there is > usually a command that screen reader users can use to update the > snapshot (Insert+ESC in JAWS). If the script doesn't raise a > navigate event (such as loading a dummy resource in a hidden > IFrame), then the screen reader won't know of the new content > without the screen reader user becoming suspicious that > something should have happened and refreshing the view themselves. > > Looking at the example page [1], I couldn't work out how to > access the "Get new challenge", "Get audio challenge", and > "Help" links using the keyboard alone. > > [1] http://recaptcha.net/fastcgi/demo/recaptcha > > Cheers, > > Gez > > -- > _____________________________ > Supplement your vitamins > http://juicystudio.com ------- End of Original Message -------
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