Hi Gerard, I am replying to the Talks list as well as to you because I thought this topic might be of interest to others. Modal dialogs presented dynamically by a web page, like the Twitter.com keyboard shortcuts dialog, can be very tricky to read with a screen reader. The Twitter team assigned an ARIA role of alertdialog to this modal dialog. This is why Window-Eyes will read the entire contents of the dialog automatically when it is displayed. Hearing the info read automatically can be very helpful, but what if you want to go back and review the commands one at a time. How would you go about doing this? Often times, when a modal dialog opens, Browse Mode will be off and you might not know exactly where focus is. Even if focus does go to the dialog, pressing Tab with Browse Mode off most likely won't help you get to the text because the text probably isn't in a control or the Tab order. The solution is to find the dialog content in Browse Mode. This is not always an easy task since you might not know where the information is, what it contains or how it is marked up (i.e. headings, tables, etc.). Here is what I discovered. The Twitter keyboard shortcuts dialog contains three tables. Each table has two columns, the first for the key command, the second for the associated action. For example, N (key command) and New Tweet (action). So, if you turn Browse Mode on and navigate to the first table on the page, you should find the first group of keyboard shortcuts in the modal dialog. Keep in mind you would first need to open the dialog before you could find it in Browse Mode and y ou can only access the dialog by pressing Shift-Question Mark with Browse Mode off. Please keep in mind that you might have to develop new strategies for other websites since these types of dialogs can be implemented in many different ways. I hope you find this information helpful. Regards, Marc From: Gerard Guarniero [mailto:g.guarni...@comcast.net] Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 12:15 PM To: Marc Solomon Subject: Twitter Keyboard Shortcuts
When using Firefox and Window-Eyes 9.1 and Windows 8.1 I cannot navigate the dialog containing the table of twitter keyboard shortcuts that is brought up when you press the available keyboard shortcuts button. I tried navigating the table with browse mode on and with browse mode off and tried using ctrl-shift-R the read to end key. Thanks. I am looking forward to your next webinar. _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
