Implementation for FLUID-3711
Antranig Basman
antranig.basman at colorado.edu
Mon Dec 13 08:40:41 UTC 2010
At length I have come up with an implementation of FLUID-3711/FLUID-3708
that apppears to work under NVDA. A lot of my initial problems seem
caused by the fact that live regions simply do not function at all with
NVDA under Windows 2000, which is the OS I have in my VM. Switching to
Windows XP allows at least some functionality for live regions - however
some aspects of ARIA still seem broken, for example audible feedback for
progress bars. We will most likely be looking at this issue wrt. the
Uploader today. I am using the stable "2010.2" release of NVDA for testing.
http://issues.fluidproject.org/browse/FLUID-3711
A patch is attached to this issue which implements the required
functionality, with the odd caveat that NVDA needs to be put into
something called "focus mode" when operating the reorderer (this is
apparently completely unrelated to the labelling function of the patch)
otherwise the reorderer and browser will go bananas as they fight with
NVDA over the binding of the arrow keys and TAB key. I presume this is a
known issue with the reorderer.
We should consider whether it's still appropriate at this point in the
release cycle to commit this patch, and whether also to dedicate the
resources to test whether it is functional under JAWS also.
Cheers,
Antranig.
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