Most disabled people use their own programs to provide access, from Screen Readers for the blind, to screen browsers (such as IBM Home page reader) for the dyslexic, to screen magnifiers for those who have limited visibility. Its not that helpful to add in your own.
The standards to follow would be WCAG 1.0 from the W3c. http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10 The browsers by themselves don't take care of accessibility, we as developers need to follow the standards so that browsers that also follow the standards work well. Its a partnership, one side can't do it alone. Sandra Clark ============================== http://www.shayna.com Training in Cascading Style Sheets and Accessibility -----Original Message----- From: Denny Valliant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 1:42 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: accesskey conundrum Hey Sandra! I figured out how to do TextToSpeech using FreeTTS and ColdFusion, but is this even a helpful feature, accessibility wise? I'm doubting it, as a screen-reader already does the job much better. Probably only helpful for the half-accessible people, where alt. versions of docs (larger text, spoken word, etc.) are better than all or nuthin, so to speak. Accessibility is interesting. Most of this is getting taken care of by the browsers now, neh? Special browsers. Better to follow the standards for the screen readers and such than to provide "extra" accessibility. Hmmm. Sounds like a cleaner solve. At any rate, if anyone's interested in text to speech, holler, I'll help. Next, speech to text... ;-) :Denny On 6/8/06, Sandra Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Except for people of course who can't see the underlines. > > If you are going to use accesskeys (and really they cause more > accessibility problems than they solve), then you also need to create > and link to an accessibility statement for the page which gives a > reference to the access keys used and what they do. > > > Sandra Clark > ============================== > http://www.shayna.com > Training in Cascading Style Sheets and Accessibility -----Original > Message----- > From: Rob Wilkerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 9:53 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: accesskey conundrum > > I'm not a big fan of access keys because of how they interfere with > the shortcuts I've set up in my environment and much-discussed > accessibility issues, but when I do use them on forms for whatever > reason, I tend to follow the Windows UI standard of underlining the > letter in the label that, in conjunction with the Alt key activates > the shortcut. Most of the people that are likely to use the shortcuts > generally seem to recognize the convention, from what I've seen. > > On 6/8/06, Andy Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Damien... > > > > I like your idea of jumping to the first field in each section. > > Because honestly. Who's going to remember every key command for your > > form? Just give them 5 or 10 and they'll be happy. > > > > <!----------------//------ > > andy matthews > > web developer > > certified advanced coldfusion programmer ICGLink, Inc. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 615.370.1530 x737 > > --------------//---------> > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Damien McKenna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 3:01 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: OT: accesskey conundrum > > > > > > Here's the story. I'm working on a series of somewhat long forms > > that I'd like to make completely accessible using accesskeys in > > addition to other basics (labels, pure CSS layout, etc). The > > problem is that I'm ending up with more fields than accesskeys makes > > sense for, and there are multiple fields that could/should use the > > same key. One idea I had was to have one accesskey defined for the > > top field in each fieldset then just let them tab between the > > different fields, but that isn't great in e.g. OSX that has fairly > > crappy keyboard navigation anyway. So what do y'all do to overcome > > this for your accessible forms? Thanks. > > > > -- > > Damien McKenna - Web Developer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The > > Limu Company - http://www.thelimucompany.com/ - 407-804-1014 > > #include <stdjoke.h> > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:243017 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
