On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Maria Schiewe
wrote:
> It’s not about the screen reader preventing the interaction. The interaction
> will be the same as for keyboard-only users. The problem is that there is no
> indication that the element can be interacted with. It is a heading level 5.
> Ho
Hello Aryeh,
Thank you for your answers and questions.
> The screen readers should allow the user to expand the menus just like
> sighted users can -- if that can't be done, that's what should be fixed.
It’s not about the screen reader preventing the interaction. The interaction
will be the sa
2010/6/18 Daniel Kinzler :
> 3) hidden (collapsed) menus use display:none. This makes them inaccessible to
> screen readers, etc. Alternative ways for hiding them might be better - such
> as
> setting the hight to 0. Has this been tried?
display: none seems completely appropriate here. The scree
Hello all,
I have a second suggestion for the alt problem that will require the use of
WAI-ARIA, namely aria-describedby. Drawback: That is currently only valid in
HTML 5. But it would be the better solution since alternative text and caption
text are two different things (see also
http://en.w
Hello Platonides,
> Those should have a title attribute.
On German Wikipedia I see no titleattribute if I specify a caption for an image.
> We used to have alt attribute equal to the title, but that was removed for
> duplicating it and being in fact ignored. Is some screen reader preferring
>
2010/6/18 Platonides :
> That looks like a bug. CollapsibleNav is using mousedown and keypress
> events instead of onclick.
>
We have been using mousedown instead of onclick to improve perceived
performance, IIRC. Replacing mousedown with onclick would eliminate
the need for hooking keypress AFAIK
Daniel Kinzler wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Today I got a review of Vector's accessibility from an employee of the German
> Central Library for the Blind (Deutsche Zentralbücherei für Blinde, DZB). This
> is by no means a full evaluation, just the result of having a casual look. I
> visited them with Till
Hi all,
Many thanks to Sebastian from the DZB for his quick accessibility inspection.
I wanted to comment on two things.
> 3) hidden (collapsed) menus use display:none. This makes them inaccessible to
> screen readers, etc. Alternative ways for hiding them might be better - such
> as setting t
Hi all
Today I got a review of Vector's accessibility from an employee of the German
Central Library for the Blind (Deutsche Zentralbücherei für Blinde, DZB). This
is by no means a full evaluation, just the result of having a casual look. I
visited them with Till and Maria of Wikimedia Germany a w
