Hi Aaron, It's a system used by one of our clients internally and so it is protected by a login. I'll see if I can save a dump of the page to show you what's going on.
Furthermore, before I started working in the AT business recently I did web development. I know quite some people who write HTML/CSS/Javascript on a professional basis and as far as I know, they all think that display: none hides content from all screenreaders. If they are building the type of menu system you're describing, a negative position is mostly used these days. The negative position positions the element outside of the browser viewport, but as far as I know all screenreaders will render such elements. Besides the assumption I mentioned above, more and more websites are starting to show/hide parts of the page using Javascript dynamically. I think the use of such web pages/apps might outgrow the number of menu systems you are describing. So, please consider changing the behavior for such elements in the next version of Window-eyes, or make it configurable if you don't want to break backwards compatibility. Bram On 28 mrt 2011, at 02:37, Aaron Smith wrote: > Window-Eyes takes a different approach to DIVs with a display: none style to > provide access to some dynamic menu systems. Typically, they'll only be > announced when their position is also set to absolute (or are a child of some > element whose position is absolute, I believe). Can you provide a URL to the > page in question? > > Aaron > > On 3/27/2011 3:07 PM, Bram Duvigneau wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'm currently looking into a somewhat inaccessible web application. The >> application shows/hides some form fields based on certain conditions. >> For example, the user has to specify an address and if he/she has moved. >> If the user indicates that he/she has moved, some new fields appear >> where the user could enter the new address. >> >> The showing/hiding of the fields is done by setting the display CSS >> attribute to block/none of the <div> surrounding the fields. NVDA as >> well as JAWS hide the fields when display is set to none and that's the >> behavior I'd expect. However, Window-eyes shows this fields regardless >> of the value of display. I would like to change the CSS style on this >> elements to let Window-eyes do the right thing. It's unsure for now if >> the developers of this web app are willing to change their code, if not >> I'm probably going to write a script that changes the style via Internet >> Explorers' DOM. >> >> The only relevant article I can find on this matter is from a few years >> ago and can be found here: >> >> http://juicystudio.com/article/screen-readers-display-none.php >> >> My question is if there is some official documentation on the way >> Window-eyes determines when to hide HTML elements? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Bram >> > > -- > Aaron Smith > Web Development * App Development * Product Support Specialist > GW Micro, Inc. * 725 Airport North Office Park, Fort Wayne, IN 46825 > 260-489-3671 * gwmicro.com > > To insure that you receive proper support, please include all past > correspondence (where applicable), and any relevant information > pertinent to your situation when submitting a problem report to the GW > Micro Technical Support Team.
