As I understand things, screen readers can handle a lot more than can keyweb. Googling "screen reader web standards" or similar phrases should tell you more than you ever wanted to know about this. Keyweb, though, is different since it is an older, mobile browser. It can't handle flash or html5, it can't do updates to elements (so no dhtml/ajax, no InnerText or InnerHtml javascript functions, and so forth), and there seem to be some newer standards that it cannot render. For instance, I once saw a site where the "type" attribute of an input tag was set to "number", but the bn would not display the input because it didn't know what a "number" field was; had the field had the type set to "text", it would have worked fine. Also, a lot of js does not run, especially onDblClick, onFocus, onBlur, and others. The only event handlers that I have found to work are onClick (only for form elements or links, not just any tag), onLoad, onUnload, and onSubmit. Alert and confirm functions work well, but nothing more advanced, like prompting for a string to be typed in using a popup in js.
On 7/23/11, Chris Nusbaum <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have heard that there are different accessibility requirements > for the BN and for screen readers on a PC. In other words, a Web > site has to have different codings to be accessible to screen > readers like JAWS or WindowEyes than it does to be accessible to > Keyweb on the BN. Is this true? If so, what is the criteria for > Web sites to be accessible to the BN? Maybe one of the more > expert programmers here could tell me how a Web site needs to be > coded to be accessible to the BN, so I can give Web designers the > information when I'm trying to get them to make a site > accessible. Thanks! Hope this isn't too confusing! > Chris > > "A loss of sight, never a loss of vision!" (Camp Abilities motto) > > The I C.A.N. Foundation helps visually impaired youth in > Maryland have the ability to confidently say "I can!" How? Click > on this link to learn more and to contribute: > www.icanfoundation.info or like us on Facebook at I C.A.N. > Foundation. > > Sent from my BrailleNote > > ___ > Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. > If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a > copy to the list as well. > > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [email protected] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > -- Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from GMail website) [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [email protected] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
