How to stop windows narration?
Hi, Is there a way to tell the windows accessibility framework to stop saying whatever it is currently trying to say? Not disabling the feature all together, just stopping the current reading? Thanks, -Andrew ...
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How to prevent a box with overflow-y: scroll from stealing the focus on tab on Firefox?
Consider a page with the following code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> <style type=...
iOS accessibility: label vs hint
What is the difference between the "label" and "hint" property if I'm trying to make a control accessible? Moreover, what do the "traits" do? Are all of these properties spoken by VoiceOver if I fill them in? ...
How do I set up an if/or condition, such that my design changes based on the user's browser's font size?
Answerers: How does one literally detect the user's font scale, so that it may be used as a variable? I am trying to create some if/else statements based on the user's font scaling (not browser zooming), to extend the usability of my sites. The two given answers are workarounds for a single case (the scenario described). The scenario ...
Site accessibility: what screen readers, etc to test against, and how?
The web site that we're writing needs to be "Accessible". The trouble is, while we understand the general conepts (semantic latout, alt text on images, light on Javascript, etc etc), we don't really have much knowledge of what screen reader products or other accessible browser are actually on the market and/or in general use, nor how to ...
Whats necessary to get Accessibility.active to be set true
Trying to get accessibility 'events' from flash - like being informed that there is new content/form and that it should be read. Looking at examples leads me to believe that either the flash apps I'm looking at are not accessibility enabled or that my app is not causing the Flash accessibility to be marked as active. Maybe it as simple...
Flash/ActionScript - Turning Off Accessibility
i've designed a UI in Flash IDE, have exported a lot of the objects for ActionScript, and program the application with an external document class .as file. in Flash IDE, i don't want any of my sliders or textFields to have accessibility options. i open the Accessibility panel (Window > Other Panels > Accessibility), and with the stage ...
Formal guidelines to follow when maximising the accessibility of software for people with disabilities
Are there formal guidelines for the development of software that help minimise health risk from software, covering issues (mainly related to GUI design) such as: How to minimise RSI Minimising risks to people with color blindness Considering the effects software might have on causing various nervous system related conditions (e.g. e...
How this tool can be created?
Commonlook - for PDF accessibility http://webaim.org/resources/commonlook/ What SDK and technology might have been used to develop this product? thanks ...
Does VS2010 or .NET 4.0 have any new tooling support for Accessibility?
What kind of tooling support or helpers does VS2010 or .NET 4.0 provide to developers in the way of accessibility? Anything new for creating 508-compliant markup? Anything new in the way of supporting WAI-ARIA specific attributes on AJAX-updatable elements? ...
Creating accessible tooltips for a web site
Is there a best practice for making tooltip type functionality accessible to people with accessibility needs? I am interested in jquery tooltip and have found a few others but I am thinking twice before spending anytime as I am concerned about accessibility compliance of these. ...
Disabling accessibility for a table column
I have a normal NSTableView that displays a list of tracks. I have dedicated a table column to displaying an icon that indicates which track is currently playing. I'm working on adding fuller VoiceOver support and I don't like how when each row in the table is selected the first thing said is "image". I would like to disable accessibili...
accessibility - label attributes for radiobuttons
I have a form which contains a 'gender' label and two radio buttons'male' and 'female'. How can I put 'label for' in this particular scenario ? <label for="username">User Name</label> <input type ="text" id="username" /> <label for="?">Gender</label> <label for="male"><input type="radio" id="male" value="male" /> </label> <label...
Secondary click toggle in OS X
I'm trying to write a program that serves to toggle a secondary click for a one button HID (in this case a touch screen). What I want to do is have the user touch a button on the screen that makes the next touch a right click. I simply don't know where to begin on this. I began by looking to Applescript, but found that this is impossible...
Toggle jQuery.remove()
Instead of .show()'ing and .hide()'ing (or .toggle()'ing for that matter), is there any way to "toggle" a .remove() function? I realize .remove() literally removes elements from the DOM, so it sounds difficult to magically replace the removed elements once they're gone, but is there a way of faking it? Note: They must be removed from t...
Gathering data for evaluating website's accessibility, and evaluating it
Is anyone aware of any kind of ressources (projects, books, academic papers, etc) on inspecting a website's accessibility with javascript? (fully ajaxified websites, otherwise it wouldn't be possible with the precision I wish). I'm especially interested in evaluating the anchor paths followed by the visitor (read: graph theory). Note: I...
AssociatedControlID for RadListBox and RadDateTimePicker controls?
I am using RadListBox and RadDateTimePicker in a traditional C# ASP.Net 3.5 web application, and I have labels like this: <asp:Label ID="lblStartDate" runat="server" Text="Start Date" AssociatedControlID="dtpStartDate" /> <telerik:RadDateTimePicker ID="dtpStartDate" runat="server"> </telerik:RadDateTimePicker> The label doesn't connec...
Is alt="" appropriate in some situations for html img tag?
We have a project that is all about web accessibility compliance. About a week from launch we have the accessibility committee reviewing our site to give the final thumbs up. However, they reported back to us that we should set alt="" on some of our icons because they do not provide any additional content to the site and thus are merel...
Website Optimization Reducing Img Object Requests
I'm on a quest to reduce my very bloated home page application in development. I've optimized the CSS and JS requests using a server size combine/stitcher and minimizer. I'm now at the point where I have an image carousel rotating 15 images as a magazine style layout. In addition there are non-carousel spots with a total of 8 objects. ...
Why doesn't narrator report itself as a screen reader to windows?
Hi, I'm trying to detect if a screen reader is attached to my application so that I can improve the experience for blind and low vision users. I'm using this win32 api (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724947%28VS.85%29.aspx), and specifying SPI_GETSCREENREADER as the uiAction. Call looks something like this: int iAction = 70...