Rich, I have been trying to find out what the DOM is for sometime. Can
you explain what it means and is? Vickie Weir
Rich Caloggero wrote:
It depends on how the screen reader interacts with the browser, and more
particularly with the DOM. Most screen readers interact with the DOM
directly not with the on-screen presentation, but when Jaws first came out
it did not do this; it interacted directly with the on-screen presentation
as far as I can tell.
What exactly does VoiceOver do? If they interact with the DOM, then it is
still in a very rutamentary way. It cannot move by element type
(forward/backward by heading, list item, paragraph, etc). In another
message, Josh suggested that VoiceOver+up/down arrow moves within the
current column. Again, they must either be using on-screen presentation to
detect this or be reading the DOM and the CSS.
-- Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: Hi
Rich Caloggero wrote:
Web browsing - if I'm on a web page which is a 3-column newspaper like
layout (nav across the top and down the left side, main page content in
the
middle, and more navigation down the right side), how would this be
without
some sort of "modification".
I don't understand why you think this would be a problem with a
correctly authored webpage where content is separated from on-screen
presentation. HTML has no concept of columns; that should be a styling
added by CSS. Maybe you're thinking of broken webpages that misuse the
<table> element for for layout?
--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
