Hi
Honestly, I doubt that the DTD has caused it. All the DTD declaration
does is let the browser know how to treat certain standards, and
honestly 95% of the browsers ignore it for the most part. I think it
more likely that something in one of the javascripts is causing it,
though as they are contained in external files that we don't have
permission to access, I can't confirm this for sure. I'd like to, as
this is something Apple should know about and the more information we
can give them the better, but they might just have to settle for the
web site and a description of the problem, and our guesses as to what
exactly is causing it.
On Mar 16, 2008, at 8:49 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
Weird. Looking at the HTML it's all very clean and nice. It even
validates with no errors on the w3c checker here:
http://validator.w3.org/
Only thing a bit unusual was that its doctype declaration was XHTML
Strict which is a bit unusual. Most sites that do good web standards
are using XHTML Transitional which is a little more lax. They seem
to have gone a bit out of their way to make this thing compliant.
Maybe VO has issues with XHTML Strict pages?
CB
Jacob Schmude wrote:
HiGreg
Well, this is most interesting indeed. It appears at first glance
that the content area is invisible to Voiceover. This is true, up
to a point. However, if I tab a few times, bringing keyboard focus
to one of the links in the content area, voiceover is able to see
everything fine until I stop interacting with the html content
area. This holds true for both group navigation (my preference) and
dom navigation. I don't see anything that looks as if it would
cause this in the page source I can view, but given the external
scripts and references, that doesn't mean anything. This behavior
does not appear confined to Safari, as Omniweb exhibits the same
issue and it also uses Webkit as its underlying rendering engine.
Opera, however, does not seem to have the problem, and is not based
on Webkit.
Just my observations
On Mar 14, 2008, at 7:52 PM, Greg Kearney wrote:
Go to the following URL: http://www.vic.gov.au/
For reasons that I am unable to determine the content area of the
site is not reachable with VoiceOver. Neither VO find nor Item
chooser will locate any thing in the content area. Navigation take
you to the header and footer but never to the content. Am I doing
something wrong or is it the site? And if it is the site what have
they done to make the content area invisible to VoiceOver?
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
