Re: Strange behaviour of Firefox 4.01

Hi. Could you please try get small test case that shows a problem?
Otherwise it's hard to understand what's wrong, either this JS problem
or key navigation problem or even problem on JAWS side. Anyway it
doesn't sounds like ARIA problem so this list probably is not the best
place to discuss it.

Thank you.
Alex.


On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Giulio Mori <giulio.mori@iit.cnr.it> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I work on web accessibility for blind people interacting with a screen
> reader Jaws and a vocal synthesizer.
>
> I am using x/html with wai-aria and javascript to design accessible web
> pages of a questionnaire user test.
>
>
>
> In this kind of application, main difficulty is to face with different
> behaviors on different browsers and also versions of Jaws screen reader
> generate different behaviors.
>
>
>
> However, problems started after the release of Firefox 4 (and next 4.01).
>
> The same code of a web questionnaire page for blind doesn’t work again with
> new release of Firefox 4.01 browser.
>
>
>
> It seems like the same functions of javascript is not yet supported.
>
> In fact even if the screen reader is turned off, interaction with “tab” key
> is blocked. L
>
>
>
> Before that release 4 of firefox, interaction was good.
>
> On the contrary on Internet Explorer, interaction with “tab” key it was
> blocked also on version 8 and 9. L
>
> and I don’t know why.
>
>
>
> Here at end, there is an extract of the code, with a radio button inside a
> form.
>
> The form is questionnaire for a user test including radio buttons,
> combo-boxes, multi select checkboxes, test areas and a button for submit.
>
>
>
> The behavior of the radio button and other elements in the form should be
> the following:
>
> The blind uses “tab” key to skip from a the radio button choice to another.
>
> When user reach last choice, if the user have not selected anything, a vocal
> alert say: 'Please, define your visual disability!'
>
> and the focus go on the first choice of the radio button again.
>
> Otherwise, if the blind have selected one choice, focus go on the next
> element inside the form.
>
>
>
> Each element of the form (for example the radio button), considers two
> events:
>
>
>
> ·        onFocus, when the user focus “goes” for the first time on the
> element.
>
> ·        onBlur, when focus changes.
>
>
>
> Is there something wrong I am not considering?
>
>
>
> Many thanks for the answers,
>
> Giulio Mori
>
>
>
>
>
> AN EXTRACT OF CODE:
>
>
>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="it" lang="it">
>
> <head>
>
> <script type = "text/javascript">
>
> <!-- hide me from older browser>
>
>   function removeOldAlert()
>
>   {
>
>     var oldAlert = document.getElementById("alert");
>
>     if (oldAlert)
>
>       document.body.removeChild(oldAlert);
>
>   }
>
>
>
>   function addAlert(aMsg)
>
>   {
>
>     removeOldAlert();
>
>     var newAlert = document.createElement("div");
>
>     newAlert.setAttribute("role", "alert");
>
>     newAlert.setAttribute("aria-live", "rude");
>
>     newAlert.setAttribute("id", "alert");
>
>     var msg = document.createTextNode(aMsg);
>
>     newAlert.appendChild(msg);
>
>     document.body.appendChild(newAlert);
>
>   }
>
>
>
> …
>
>
>
>   function checkValidity3(aID, num, aMsg)
>
>   {
>
>     var elem = document.getElementById(aID);
>
>     var invalid = true;
>
>     for (var loop = 0; loop <
> window.document.questionario_conoscitivo.tipo_disabilita.length; loop++)
>
>     {
>
>                 if
> (window.document.questionario_conoscitivo.tipo_disabilita[loop].checked ==
> true)
>
>                 {
>
>                                invalid = false;
>
>                 }
>
>     }
>
>
>
>     if (invalid) {
>
>       elem.setAttribute("aria-invalid", "true");
>
>                   if
> (num==window.document.questionario_conoscitivo.tipo_disabilita.length-1)
>
>         addAlert(aMsg);
>
>
>
>     } else {
>
>       elem.setAttribute("aria-invalid", "false");
>
>       removeOldAlert();
>
>    }
>
>                 return invalid;
>
>   }
>
>
>
>
>
>   function proseguire(msg1, … msg3, … msg16)
>
>   {
>
>                 if(msg1 == true)
>
>                 {
>
>                                …
>
>                 }
>
> …
>
>                 else if(msg3 == true)
>
>                 {
>
>
> window.document.questionario_conoscitivo.tipo_disabilita[0].focus();
>
>                 }
>
> …
>
>                 else if(msg16 == true)
>
>                 {
>
>                                …
>
>                 }
>
>
>
>   }
>
>
>
>  function checkRisposta(invalid, … invalid3, … invalid16)
>
>   {
>
>                 result = !(invalid) && … && !(invalid3) && … !(invalid16);
>
>                 return result;
>
>   }
>
> // show me -->
>
> </script>
>
> </head>
>
> <body onload="invalid = true; … invalid3= true; … invalid16= true;">
>
>
>
> <form id="questionario_conoscitivo" name="questionario_conoscitivo"
> action="http://...questionario.php" method="POST" onsubmit="return
> checkRisposta(invalid,… invalid3, … invalid16);">
>
> …
>
> <div role="dialog" aria-labelledby="messaggio3">
>
> <h2 id="messaggio3"><b>3) Kind of visual disability:</b><br/><br/></h2>
>
> <input type="radio" aria-required="true" id="tipo_disabilita0"
> name="tipo_disabilita" value="Blind" onFocus="proseguire(invalid, …
> invalid3, … invalid16);" onblur="invalid3 =
> checkValidity3('tipo_disabilita0', 0, ‘Please, define your visual
> disability!');" />
>
> <label for="tipo_disabilita0">Non vedente<br/></label>
>
> <input type="radio" aria-required="true" id="tipo_disabilita1"
> name="tipo_disabilita" value="Visually Impaired" onblur="invalid3 =
> checkValidity3('tipo_disabilita1', 1, 'Please, define your visual
> disability!');" />
>
> <label for="tipo_disabilita1">Ipovedente<br/></label>
>
> <input type="radio" aria-required="true" id="tipo_disabilita2"
> name="tipo_disabilita" value="None" onblur="invalid3 =
> checkValidity3('tipo_disabilita2', 2, 'Please, define your visual
> disability!');" />
>
> <label for="tipo_disabilita2">Nessuna<br/></label>
>
> </div><br/>
>
> …
>
> </form>
>
>
>
> </body>
>
> </html>
>
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Received on Thursday, 16 June 2011 07:44:29 UTC