Hi Anastasia,
What do the instructions say currently? It seems to me that a
reference to the "virtual cursor" could be very confusing to non-
screen reader users. It also seems that if there were a way to give
JAWS users info about *only* the set of keystrokes they could use, it
would be best to do that and minimize their cognitive load.
Cheers,
Allison
On Dec 11, 2008, at 12:53 PM, Anastasia Cheetham wrote:
FLUID-1821 suggests some improvements to the Image Reorderer
instructions for screen reader users - for example, the instructions
that they need to turn off virtual cursor.
In trying to implement these improvements, however, some questions
came to mind that I'm not sure how to deal with.
Here's the source of the conundrum:
We first implemented the keyboard movement using Ctrl + arrow keys.
We soon found that this key combination was already 'taken' by JAWS
for another purpose, so we found an unused combination: Ctrl + i, j,
k or m. Now, the Image Reorderer will work with either of these sets
of keys.
The instructions that are both displayed and spoken describe both of
these keysets. However, JAWS users can't use whichever set they like
- only the letter version will work for them. Also, it could be
argued that non-screen reader users don't really need to be told to
turn virtual cursor off.
So: should the spoken instructions be different than the visual
instructions? Is this a good idea? A bad idea?
Thoughts from screen reader users? Thoughts from interaction
designers? Thoughts from people who have thoughts on the issue?
--
Anastasia Cheetham [email protected]
Software Designer, Fluid Project http://fluidproject.org
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre / University of Toronto
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Allison Bloodworth
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University of California, Berkeley
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