Hi Clare,
Roger Hudson recently wrote a detailed article on legends and fieldset -
including a series of movies showing both JAWS 9 and Window-Eyes 6.1 in
action.
The article is here:
http://www.usability.com.au/resources/wcag2/
The relevant movie is here:
http://dotsub.com/view/0064d19b-a8da-4729-86f7-a45aaa5bdd57
If you watch the movie you will hear JAWS 9 clearly reading out the relevant
legends (at 2:25 of the movie).
When Andrew goes into forms mode, the screen reader says:
"Participants name colon edit"
Participants is the legend, name is the label.
You can also here the legend being read our in association with each
checkbox item. For example:
"Areas of interest pottery checkbox not checked"
Areas of interest is the legend, pottery is the label, and the item is a
checkbox.
HTH
Russ
on 3/10/08 7:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to educate developers to add fieldsets and legends to their code
> when building applications. Jaws 5.0 handles fieldsets and legends in the
> form field dialog box but jaws 9.0 doesn't. I've spoken to freedom scientific
> and they say this
> "Therefore, there is really no setting in JAWS 9.0 that can be changed to
> cause the List of Form Fields dialog to behave in the same manner as it in
> JAWS 5.0."
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on this matter or know of any software that does
> support fieldsets and legends!
>
> Thanks
>
> Clare
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