Just one little nit here. There is no correlation between the use of
javascript and bad accessibility. Actually you must use javascript in
many cases to make pages accessible such as updating ARIA roles and
states when interacting with a widget or moving focus to a reasonable
place when a user actions an item. Of course there are lots of sites
that use javascript to add interactivity to a site and fail to do it in
an accessible way, but that's not a problem with javascript. Now if we
could just get Safari up to speed on ARIA we could really get some sites
accessible. As it is today I test web accessibility on Firefox on Jaws
or NVDA and hope it will work on Safari sometime in the future.
CB
On 10/2/11 3:30 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi Christine,
I wasn't able to get anywhere with the main web site in Safari with VoiceOver
on. Not only does the site use flash for its contents, but the source page
view indicates that they are using a lot of javascript. I couldn't even click
in the web page and select all to send the contents to TextEdit for viewing via
the services menu option.
What did work was doing a Google search for a separate page for Red Mango gift
cards. I found this URL for their online card sales:
https://redmango.myguestaccount.com/login/web_card_sale/selectcards.srv
I think this is the page you can eventually get to if you manage to get past all
the flash and javascript. Navigate to the Quantity field of the denomination gift
card you want ($25, $50, $75, etc.), route your mouse cursor to your VoiceOver
cursor with VO-Command-F5 and click with VO-Shift-Space in the text field. Then
type the number of cards you want and press return. You'll be taken to the
Billing& Shipping page, and can continue. I didn't try to go through the
whole order placement, but this seemed to work with Safari and VoiceOver once you
get past that main web page. I'd normally try to find a search field or sitemap
link on the main page to do a search, but it didn't work in this case, so I tried
Google. So the workaround in this case was to search for the specific web page on
the redmango.com site that dealt with gift cards, and hope that if I found this
that it wouldn't have the same flash problems of the main page of the site.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Oct 2, 2011, at 08:30, Christine Grassman wrote:
Hello, folks. I have tried, on my own and with sighted assistance without
VoiceOver on, to purchase a gift card from
http://www.redmangousa.com
The site seems to be in flash, yet I can read the address bar, and the links to Twitter
and Facebook. When I search in Google, I see the information in perfectly readable text
in the search window, but when I click on it, I'm back to the inaccessible site. My
husband tried without VoiceOver, and is getting "missing plug-in" -- but I
thought Flash worked without VoiceOver.
I tried Omniweb, and I'm getting nothing except the title of the site, and a
TAbs button, which is doing nothing. Any workaround for such sites is
appreciated.
Christine
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