I am afraid I am with Tom on this one. It's not just that organizations
are pretty slap-dash about accessibility. They are slap-dash about
other things and they run on the build of the day or the week or the
month. So if something got messed up in one iteration of slight
adjustment it might or might not get fixed in a subsequent one.
Sometimes unless you want to spend a lot of time emailing different
tech support departments, the try something else or move on strategy is
the most sanity-preserving....
DoreneC
Seattle WA
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lange <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tue, Apr 27, 2010 6:09 pm
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Jaws and OnMouseOver
Hi,
Ana writes:
Yes, I've followed these instructions from FS training. They're the
ones that worked for me back when the feature was new, though the
keystroke was different, but I haven't had much luck with it in a
long time. What sometimes does work is to use the left mouse button
on the keyboard and arrow around for changes on the screen though
that's more miss than hit. The only place where these instructions
have worked consistently over the years is on the FS training page.
Again, the problem may be some setting of mine, as I'm not always
able to get into the product page link from the training page where
these instructions appear. I posted to the list instead of contacting
Freedom Scientific directly to get a sense of whether other people
encounter this problem as they surf the net. If I'm not alone, then
there's still a glitch in Jaws. If most people have no problem with
it, then calling tech support could be helpful.
Strange as it may seem, I'm inclined to give FS the benefit of the
doubt here and take a rather jaundiced view of web development tools
and some people who use them. It's very rare when I see a mouse-over
work properly with JAWS, but I have seen it work. That being the
case, I suspect that although the mouse-over may work okay for rodent
fans out there, there may be a good chance that something on the web
page isn't coded quite right, so JAWS can't interact properly with the
mouse-over.
When my students work with the Surf's Up tutorial pages, I tell
them that the examples that they see are created with the assumption
that they operate the way they do given " a perfect world". I also
tell them, with no small measure of cynicism, that many people and
organizations throw together web pages with only a perfunctory, token
effort toward accessibility if they're aware of accessibility issues
at all. So, in short, I tell my students that when they're operating
out on the wild wild web, don't be afraid to use the keystrokes
provided by JAWS as tools in their arsenal, but don't get too
surprised or bummed out if they don't work. If they do work, rejoice
in a small victory; if not, try something else and move on.
Tom
Leave list:[log in to unmask]
VICUG-L is archived on the World Wide Web at
http://listserv.icors.or g/archives/vicug-l.html
Send questions on list operation
[log in to unmask]
VICUG-L is the Visually Impaired Computer User Group List.
Archived on the World Wide Web at
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/vicug-l.html
Signoff: [log in to unmask]
Subscribe: [log in to unmask]
|
