Hi Jonathan, it's Maria. First, I think your ideas for describing the scene are great. Also I think that both sighted and non-sighted users need to be made aware that they can put more than one player on either side of the cart (e.g. I initially thought you could only put one player per side and that the 4 knots were so you could position the player at different intervals on the rope).
Second, I use the NVDA screen reader and I've never actually had to turn on or off the Forms Mode you mentioned, I just went through the preferences menu again and it seems to me like the Forms Mode is embedded in the system. I use the Tab/Shift-Tab keys not only to go back and forth through form fields but also to go back and forth through links on a web page or in software. I like your idea of using a different widget for the Mute button, a toggle switch with radio buttons or something like that would help the user to know what the Mute status is. Your idea to make the cart so that the user can focus on it when they Tab through is a great idea, and once the user focuses on the cart the screen reader should read a description (long or short depending on the user's preference). There should be a button where the user can choose long (introductory) descriptions for elements on the page or short descriptions that would give only the basic info (e.g. "Cart: then whatever info is meant to be conveyed"). Sam's e-mail described a "live region" and I'm not too sure what this is, but it sounds like an element that gets automatic focus when it changes. If this is correct, then it sounds like a good idea to use a live region to read out the status of the net forces and motion of the cart. As for how to move the players along the rope, I'm not sure of the best way to do this, but we need something like an accessible version of drag-and-drop. Could a key combo be used that doesn't have any meaning to NVDA or other screen readers (e.g. something like Ctrl-Tab to move the player right and Shift-Ctrl-Tab to move the player left)? Thanks, and take care. -- María Carmen C. Cruz CyberWave Web Design - www.cyberwavedesign.com. Tetra Society of North America - www.tetrasociety.org. Visit https://www.canadahelps.org/GivingPages/GivingPage.aspx?gpID=35700 to check out a list of great charities you can donate to online. Catch my blog at http://cruzviewz.blogspot.com. On 12/13/14, fluid-work-requ...@fluidproject.org <fluid-work-requ...@fluidproject.org> wrote: > Send fluid-work mailing list submissions to > fluid-work@fluidproject.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.idrc.ocad.ca/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > fluid-work-requ...@fluidproject.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > fluid-work-ow...@fluidproject.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of fluid-work digest..." _______________________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list - fluid-work@fluidproject.org To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://lists.idrc.ocad.ca/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
