I think Jane's problem is with how VoiceOver is reading her forms
clientside (i.e. in the HTML layer) not how her forms are being
processed serverside by Perl or Java or whatever. The installation base
of serverside languages is irrelevant, since they don't need to be
installed on every client. The accessibility of authoring tools is
relevant, but since Java servers can be operated from the command line
and Java can be authored in a text editor, there's no intrinsic need for
the Java Access Bridge even for the developer.
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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Jude DaShiell wrote:
The information is available and you'll find it by searching for and
reading up on html forms. For html forms to work some java usually gets
executed. Could it be done with perl and cgi? Probably, but I haven't
run into any code examples of that yet. Should it be done using perl?
Yes since full java installations don't exist on every computer and for
users with accessibility needs the java access bridge probably needs to
be installed and working properly too. With perl, you don't need any of
that extra stuff.
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Jane Jordan (gmail) wrote:
I have a question for you HTML types.
How do you make a text box where you submit comments say what it is
when you tab over it in Safari? This text area tag does not appear to
work. VO only says "edit box" or something when I tab across it. I
can't give you a link, but I am sure you have seen those boxes where
there is no label but you are allowed to put text in.
Jane
