- From: Ben Maurer <bmaurer@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:52:35 -0700 (PDT)
- To: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>
- cc: Chris Blouch <cblouch@aol.com>, Colin McMillen <mcmillen@cs.cmu.edu>, wai-xtech@w3.org
Hey, On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Gregory J. Rosmaita wrote: > > ben wrote: >> The focus-moving is mostly for the demo. It makes it much easier >> to try out the demo (sort of like the google.com homepage). Also, >> we move the focus to the input box after you switch to/from an >> audio captcha. Any thoughts on this? > unquote > > when you need to open the audio captcha challange in a media player, > like as not, focus is going to be grabbed by the media player, unless > one is quick enough to cycle back to the page, enter into "forms mode" > and get not just the application cursor into the text area, but the > virtual JAWS cursor, which allows one to actually interact with a > form, must first be invoked, either through the "form control list" > or by ensuring one is inside the edit area (using the aforementioned > INSERT plus TAB) and pressing ENTER to enter "forms mode", which i > have always thought one of the clumsiest implementations ever, as > ENTER can be interpreted as a command to the user agent to submit > the form, just as invoking the "form control list", which is invoked > using INSERT plus F5, sometimes undoes everything entered into the > form to that point due to its being misinterpreted as a call to > reload the document... It sounds like juggling might be easier... > is there something other than quicktime you > could use, such as RealAlternative? if you don't have QuickTime > installed, one must obtain the audio captcha via a media player that > like as not will steal focus from the browser instance -- > RealAlternative, as i understand, is the second best thing to > using the operating system's or user agent's backplane audio > renderer, so that one need not leave the user agent in order to have > the audio file fired... We don't do anything to ask for quicktime. We simply insert and <embed> element into the document. Could you take a look at: https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount And click the audio button under Word Verification. Is this any better? Does anybody have suggestions as to the best thing to do from the html side? -b
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