Re: Confusion about role of dialog

Victor - so do you not think that this is a JAWS bug? How would you suggest presenting a dialog to the user which contains content which requires screen reader features such as table mode in order to be useful?

Regards,
James


On Jan 31, 2011, at 7:27 PM, Victor Tsaran wrote:

> The dialog may not be useful outside of the virtual buffer, so I do see jaws side. It's different for safari, of course, because there's no concept of vb.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Jan 31, 2011, at 3:02 PM, "James Craig" <jcraig@apple.com> wrote:
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>> I would agree that this is a JAWS bug.
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>> On Jan 31, 2011, at 7:26 AM, James Nurthen wrote:
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>>> We have noticed that when using a role of dialog JAWS is going into application mode. Is this correct behaviour or a JAWS bug? I see nothing in the spec which states that this should happen.
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>>> If this is NOT a JAWS bug, what role should we be using for a generic dialog container which may contain content (such as tables) as well as actions (buttons).
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