RE: ARIA semantics for secondary navigation

I tried the test page Jon referred to in his post.   Currently it does not 
work with JAWS 10 in Firefox 3.0.10 but it does work with a daily Firefox 
3.5 build.  However, JAWS does not include any of the labelled by 
information in the landmarks dialog nor does it speak the labelledby 
information if I navigate from landmark to landmark.  Is this something we 
expect the screen reader and/or  browser to implement? 

thanks,
-becky

>Screen reader users do not necessarily want to know the visual position 
of a navigation bars, they want to know what the relationship >is between 
the links in a navigation bar. 
>
>This can be done using the ARIA-LABEL and ARIA-LABELLEDBY links, see 
example:
>
>http://test.cita.illinois.edu/aria/nav/nav1.html
>
>Jon


Becky Gibson
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Received on Tuesday, 19 May 2009 14:41:54 UTC