Thanks Chris,
This is a good technique because even jaws doesn't move to the new
content automatically and makes you go through a bit of hoopla to get
there. if we could have apple do this automatically it would be
great. as it works now, it is actually better than jaws.
On Jan 1, 2008, at 10:35 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
Generally whenever content is updated dynamically you should move
focus to the container of that updated content. So if you have HTML
like this
<div id="bob" tabindex="-1">
Here is some stuff
</div>
In the JS to change this would be something like
var o=document.getElementByID("bob");
o.innerHTML="Here is some new content to go in this DIV";
but the screen reader will never know there is new stuff there. So we
need to move focus to the DIV. But DIV normally can't take focus
unless we use the tabindex="-1" hack so then we can just do
o.focus()
Of course there are some limitations in that some screen readers won't
automagically read updated content even when focus is moved to it
unless it's in a header tag. So I usualy stuff a hidden <h6> pair
saying something like "Updated content" to get the screen reader to
notice.
In other words, today it's a non trivial problem. Hope this helps.
CB
David Poehlman wrote:
Good year all!
Is there a way we can access the "on mouse over" content on a web
page? i know this is something we've talked about but don't know if
there is any solution.
Here's a sample:
http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/Surfs_Up/MouseOver.htm
