It is not advisable nor is it documented as to how to do this. please just follow accessability guidelines and show your university the relivant materials to force their hand. if you need help forcing their hand, we can help.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Jurgensen`" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:10 AM Subject: Re: Help needed with basic Css for VO Hi,Lol, I am "aware" of the issues, but there is very little I can do about accessibility within the existing infrastructure. I am finding that I don't know enough programming in the required language to modify existing code, and the result would, even if I could modify it, be probably a mockery, without special training. Lol, I am only fifteen, so fogive me if this sounds stupid. I am trying do do what is best for the end users. The mail client I am trying to adapt is "open source", but the sighted users pages are too crowded as it is. The university won't have a screen reader compliant client until I complete the code for a screen reader specific mode, nicknamed Open-Web-Accessibility. I want to develope something with screen users in mind as adapting sites, while allowing access, is not really optimized in my oppinion for the blind end user. I don't remember, when I intoroduced myself to this list, but I am a VO user, and the Standard and Advanced interface, while usable, present a number of difficulties due to visual components such as images and icons. Hope this is helpful, Thanks for listening, Alex, On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Jurgensen` wrote: > >> I am using Css to hide certain text that clutters the page and that ony >> sighted users could use such as the fact that the web browsing mode is a >> screen reader compliant mode. I litterly have "You are browsing "ICE" in >> Screen Reader Mode" at the top. I want to add a switch to advanced or >> standard mode links for sighted users that navigate to the screen reader >> mode of my page. >> > > There's no reliable technique for hiding content from screen reader users. > Mere text could be (very hackily) "hidden" by placing it in an image with > alt="", but this will be invisible to some sighted users too. Normal > links > and controls would be very difficult to hide; JS-based fake controls might > be easier to hide but won't be usable by all sighted users (not just > because > of the dependency on JS, but also because they won't necessarily be > keyboard > accessible). > > All this is unneccesary to the blind user, as it is a >> separate service of the university than standard and advanced mode. >> Basically, my task is to make a screen reader specific page. >> > > You're perhaps aware of the issues, but in general creating a screen > reader > specific mode is a suboptimal approach compared to fixing the other modes > to > work with assistive technology. See this discussion from RNIB: > > > http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/PublicWebsite/public_textbasedwebsites.hcsp > > -- > Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis > > -- Alex A.AWEBSIGHT administrator AWEBSIGHT web team "Blindness is a gift, not a disability." B.C unit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.VisionMail.uni.cc/
