Hi Shannon: Some time ago, I think within the last year, GW Micro actually did a training webinar on ARIA controls and how Window-eyes reads them. Go to the GWMicro website, then go to Training, then go to the Free Webinar training link, then you should find it in the archives. Kevin Huber
On 10/25/13, Shannon <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark, > > I for one would be very interested if GW would put on a training class on > the new ARIA web controls and how they work, what they mean and what to do > when we encounter them. > > I think I am dealing with them and don't know what to do with them. > > I am currently reading a Google article on outlook configuration and mail > folders. The text in this article says to click on the client you are > using below to learn more. Unfortunately the list below says odd things to > me and I don't know how to activate-interact with it/them. For example I > hear > > > > Click on your client below to view our recommended configuration. > > Page Tab, Iphone, Page tab, Thunderbird, list two with zero items and one > sub list, > > End of list two, Page Tab, Apple Mail, Page tab, outlook, page tab, > outlook express > > > > I can't seem to click on a single one. I have tried the space bar on the " > page tab" before each of the items I wish to look into and on the Names > directly, but that doesn't work I have tried to press enter on the same > elements and that still doesn't work. How do you interact with such items? > > This is just a help article but it is not really helping since I can't get > to the specific clients I am using to learn more. > > The link to this article is; > > https://support.google.com/mail/answer/78892 > > > > Can you tell me about this article? > > How does one using We handle it? Could a class be done on ARIA and how it > is used. > > My machine specs are Win seven 64, IE 8 and WE 8.3 > > Thank you > > Shannon > > > > From: Marc Solomon [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 9:29 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: major google help needed > > > > Hi Jed, > > > > It would be helpful to know what web browser and operating system you are > using so I could recreate your computing environment. Since I don't have > this information, I went ahead and did some testing on Windows 7 64-bit > with > both Internet Explorer 10 and Firefox 24 to figure out the best way to sign > out from Google. The first detail to point out is that by default the Sign > Out link is not displayed visually on the page when you are logged in, and > because of this the Sign Out link is also not accessible to screen readers > without taking additional action. Before the Sign Out link can be > activated, you first have to display it on the page by activating the > Account widget link. The name of this link will depend on what your Google > account name or username is but it should be the 7th link on the page that > comes right after the Share link. > > > > There are two strategies for accomplishing the task of activating the Sign > Out link with Window-Eyes. The first is to turn on browse mode, locate the > Account widget link and activate it. After doing so, a modal popup dialog > will be displayed that contains additional links including the Sign Out > link. At this point, I would recommend redrawing the screen with > Insert-Backslash to make sure Window-Eyes sees the new information. Once > you have redrawn the screen, navigate down the page (or in this case, down > through the Account widget popup dialog) until you find the Sign Out link > and activate it. The other option is to turn off browse mode first, locate > the Account widget link, activate it and since browse mode is off you > shouldn't have to redraw the screen to find the Sign Out link in the popup > Account widget dialog. These techniques should work on any of Google's > pages > including the search page, Gmail, Google Drive, etc. > > > > Behind the scenes, the Sign Out link is listed in the page's HTML source > code (this is referred to as the Document Object Model or DOM). But, the > reason why the Sign Out link is not displayed visually or accessible with a > screen reader by default is because the Google web designer is using a > special ARIA attribute called "has popup" for the Account widget containing > the Sign Out link and initially sets the attribute's value to false. This > causes the web browser to hide the Account widget popup dialog and all of > the Account widgets children or items it contains until you activate the > Account widget link. Activating the Account widget link toggles the "has > popup" ARIA attribute value to true and triggers the popup Account widget > dialog to be displayed visually and making the information accessible to a > screen reader. > > > > You might be asking yourself, why does Google hide the Sign Out link and > make this process so difficult for me, I just want to Sign Out? Well, this > is just a design decision they made and is based on Google's philosophy of > making their web pages behave more like a dynamic application than a static > webpage. Google uses Accessible Rich Internet Application (ARIA) markup > extensively in their web pages to add application like functionality and to > enhance the accessibility of their pages for access technology users. Once > you get a feel for using Google's webpages and ARIA elements, they can > become more intuitive and efficient to use. This might require additional > training but ARIA is the future of the web and accessible web design so it > is probably time for everyone to get on board so you don't get left behind. > > > > Regards, > > Marc > > > > > > Subject: major google help needed > > From: "Jed Barton" <[email protected]> > > Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 21:00:20 -0400 > > Reply-To: <[email protected]> > > > > Hey guys, > > > > I've had this problem for 3 days, I was helping my mom the other day with > her gmail account, and I can't get out of it. > > For some reason, my browser is retaining all kinds of crap, and some very > odd stuff is coming up. > > All I wanna do is sign out of it, and it's saying stuff liks wissawick and > empty iframe. > > All kinds of what appears to be junk, there isn't even a god damn sign out > button. This is ridiculous! > > Sorry guys, I'm just frustrated. All I wanna do is sign out of hers, and > get back to mine. Hers doesn't even have basic html. > > And when I try and navigate with the mouse all it does is ding ding ding > ding ding ding ding ding ding ding > > > > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is > related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to > [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can > manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
