Hi there, I'm wondering if MSAA is COM-based, then one should be able to use CreateObject("Accessibility") to create an instance and call its methods. I had no success doing that. I have "OLEACC.DLL" in SYSTEM32 and it's registered with Windows. But the CreateObject fails. Any thoughts? I would like to use functions like AccessibleObj...
Consider this example showing the YUI tree in action: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/treeview/tv%5Fedit.html Select the title in orange ("TreeView Control: Inline Editing of TreeView Node Labels"). Hit tab a first time: the link "View example in new window" is selected. Hit tab a second time: this selects an anchor inside the...
A site heavily using a main iframe I inherited a legacy codebase/website, http://ninjawars.net . The iframes were in place before I started coding on the site. I constantly hear about the problems of iframes (security, accessibility, layout issues), and I'm pretty certain that iframes aren't friendly for search engines (a big minus). ...
The following code works just fine in IE, FF, Chrome and Safari, but I am wondering how efficient it actually is when scaled to a lot of users and whether it is accessible to screen readers/special needs users/etc? Specifically, is there a better way to write the jQuery so it uses less $(this) references, and does that even cause any pe...
Is there a way to convert an image on the fly to "Red on Black" for accessibility? I have pictures that I want to stream to the iphone. Viewing them at night, Red on Black is better for viewing. ...
is it not good to use !important in favor of accessibility? How and where use of !important can create problem for site user? ...
I'm writing a really simple name / value editor control where the value is editable - label on left and property text box on right. Control works fine except that when the user hits TAB when inside one of the "value" text boxes on the right, the focus shifts away from my control to the next control in the hiearchy. I want the focus to ...
I'm researching what options I have to access a browser's edit fields from outside. (Accessing the edit fields in an HTML page from an external application.) I've played around with the Accessibility.IAccessible interface. That allows me to retrieve the plain text, which is great. But I would also like to modify the text in it, and the ...
I am exploring an idea I had the other day. What if I would allow the registered users on a website to pick their own colors for their comments and posts? This way the manifestation of their presence and personality would be stronger, and also it would be easier to spot (and ignore/ban) trouble-makers (#900 characters on #000 background...
As background, I currently develop for a university, and we have problems with departments demanding "web 2.0 content" and accessibility requirements. How do really big sites that are JavaScript based deal with 508 Compliance? Some sites degrade, and others require enabling JavaScript. How much impact does one decision have versus the...
I am using a FlowDocumentReader to display FlowDocuments in a .NET 3.5 WPF application (the FlowDocuments have help/info/notes that are displayed based on user choices in the ui). I assumed that the FlowDocumentReader contents would be read/recognized by a Screen Reader (I am testing with NVDA on Windows 7) - but when the reader gets fo...
Which processing is fast Client-side or Server-side? for client side processing browser need to download every JavaScript first and in server side programming everything happens on server without downloading anything to user PC? if for a particular functionality we have solution in both javascript and php/asp then what should be chosen ...
Should we think about CSS media other than screen and print? http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/media.html#media-types all Suitable for all devices. braille Intended for braille tactile feedback devices. embossed Intended for paged braille printers. handheld Intended for handheld devices (typically small screen, limited bandwi...
I would like personal recommendations or reviews of Accessibility conferences in the United States, and preferably the western states. What conferences would offer the most to a web developer and what skill levels are addressed. ...
With the increasing popularity of libraries like jQuery that make Javascript a lot more friendly, I see a tendency to delegate parts of the layouts to the client side: things like coloring of table rows (from simple things up to tools like flexigrid), fixes for cross browser CSS incompatibilities, syntax highlighting and so on. Is it no...
Hello, I'm developing a XAML system which at present involves an icon in the taskbar which the user has to hover over in order to open the main window. However I need to take accessibility into consideration due to legal issues and also making the system appeal to as broad a range of users as possible. In order to make the system more a...
Hi, i'm developing a site that must be as accessible as possible. While assigning the accesskeys to my form fields with widget=FieldWidget(attrs={'accesskey':'A'}) i found out that the w3c validator won't validate an xhtml strict page with an accesskey in a select tag. Anyway i couldn't find a way to assign an accesskey to the label rel...
So I understand the functional difference between the span and label tags... however it appears there is also a rendering difference between the tags and I can't seem to figure out what it is? Does anyone know the rendering difference between span and label? Thanks ...
I am running into an “interesting” error with my WCF JSONP web service. It is the only one I have and it only exposes one method. If I hit my service via web browser internally it pops up with a message that, effectively, MEX is not enabled (true). If I hit it from outside our network (like you would unless you were on a machine in my...
I'm facing a problem for an application I'm writing (http://code.google.com/p/blazingstars/issues/detail?id=25), where my program is a menulet (menu bar) application that uses the Accessibility API to interact with and control another program. I do the usual things like registering for the API notifications and getting the window list t...