Implementation for FLUID-3711

[Justin Obara]

Hi Antranig, 

Some comments below.

On 2010-12-13, at 3:40 AM, Antranig Basman wrote:

> 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.

For this release we put in some work on the Progress component. Unless the uploader does something to block the aria from the progress bar, I don't think you will need to worry about it too much, but I might be missing something.

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> http://issues.fluidproject.org/browse/FLUID-3711
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> 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.

This is a known issue, and is why Harris had been looking at http://issues.fluidproject.org/browse/FLUID-3707 Honestly, I think this is  a bit of a bug with screen readers at the moment, since the reorder already sets roles. It seems that the current crop of screen readers are only auto-switching on the application role. 

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> 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.

We should talk about this today.

> 
> Cheers,
> Antranig.