Membership Tool design meeting

[Michael S Elledge]

Hi Marc--

Are you asking if JAWS reads the specifications "popup"?  If so, it 
doesn't. :-)  Although it did read across the page which was strange, as 
it was on a single line.

Mike

Marc Brierley wrote:
> Though I put in no labels for navigation purposes, I did put the 
> content for the layer next to the Hide/Show controller remembering 
> some accessibility advice about that awhile ago. Then the screen 
> reader (I know, just one modality) would get the content inline, right?
>
> [adding accessibility list, for reference:
>> The mockups are here:
>> http://brierley.stanford.edu/membership/mysites.html
>> http://brierley.stanford.edu/membership/allsites.html
> ]
>
> -mARC
>
> On Nov 30, 2007, at 9:15 AM, Colin Clark wrote:
>
>> Adam,
>>
>> Adam Marshall wrote:
>>> .... and ensure everything works when JavaScript has been disabled?
>>
>> Good point. While I think graceful degradation is a very useful 
>> technique for backwards compatibility, the argument about turning off 
>> JavaScript for accessibility reasons is dated and inaccurate at this 
>> point.
>>
>> WCAG 1.0 was written back in the late '90s, when certain screen 
>> readers had trouble with certain types of scripts. For years now, 
>> this incompatibility has been resolved.
>>
>> If done right, and carefully marked up with additional semantics such 
>> as those in the Accessible Rich Internet Applications spec, I think 
>> DHTML will make Web applications more accessible than ever. We have 
>> to be very careful to think of keyboard accessibility, flexible 
>> layouts, high contrast styles, and live regions. But it's very 
>> possible to make fully accessible JavaScript user interfaces. In fact 
>> Fluid is specifically pursuing this approach, building components and 
>> a framework that make it easier to build accessible DHTML.
>>
>> We shouldn't let WCAG 1.0's dated requirements stop us from using 
>> JavaScript. We just have to do it right. I've written a checklist for 
>> developers, providing an overview of DHTML techniques:
>>
>> http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/DHTML+Developer+Checklist
>>
>> Colin
>>
>> --Colin Clark
>> Technical Lead, Fluid Project
>> Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto
>> http://fluidproject.org
>>
>> ----------------------
>> This automatic notification message was sent by Sakai Collab 
>> (https://collab.sakaiproject.org/portal) from the DG: User 
>> Interaction site.
>> You can modify how you receive notifications at My Workspace > 
>> Preferences.
>>
>
> ----------------------
> This automatic notification message was sent by Sakai Collab 
> (https://collab.sakaiproject.org/portal) from the WG: Accessibility site.
> You can modify how you receive notifications at My Workspace > 
> Preferences.
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: elledge.vcf
Type: text/x-vcard
Size: 313 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://fluidproject.org/pipermail/fluid-work/attachments/20071130/9b4c98cf/attachment.vcf>