The Situation I have an area of the screen that can be shown and hidden via JavaScript (something like "show/hide advanced search options"). Inside this area there are form elements (select, checkbox, etc). For users using assistive technology like a screen-reader (in this case JAWS), we need to link these form elements with a label or ...
Does anyone know of an ASP.NET date picker control that works well with JAWS? Barring that, do you have any tips for making the existing ASP.NET date picker control easier to use for JAWS users? ...
I'm embarking on a project where accessibility to WCAG 2.0 and the ability to use the web application in the JAWS screenreader are key requirements. I'm looking for insights as to how JAWS treats Javascript, is it a complete no go or is JAWS smart enough to cope!? ...
A colleague of mine came to me with a problem on one of his projects. Unable to help him, due to my lack of experience with screen readers and the technology, I turn to you, the proud and mighty mass of SO users. Summary for the TLDR-folks: Our Grids in UpdatePanels aren't working in screen-readers. Might be something with the AJAX ...
I would like you to know precisely exactly which one of the ARIA attributes I can use as the users I am targeting will be using the JAWS screen reader. So far I failed to find technical documentation targeted at developers provided by Freedom Scientific. ...
Is there some way, through either JAWS scripting or HTML, to force JAWS to refresh its virtual screen buffer (normally Ins + Esc)? I'm working on an AJAX-heavy web application that requires JAWS support, but the users don't particularly like the solution "hit Ins+Esc after performing any action to catch possible changes". ...
If I have a form that updates via AJAX, there is a chance that the original value field (as it was output to the browser) will not match the text that the form field now has inside. I know from a blind user that I help on occasion that Jaws 9 and later has strong support for rich internet applications (specifically AJAX and DOM changes)...
I'm working on a project for a government agency which requires 508 compliance. Our product is written for Flash 10 in ActionScript 3 using Flash CS4. We are doing this 100% programatically. We have almost all of the elements working properly, but when accessing combobox components, we have a problem. The combobox can be tabbed to dire...
I had written a simple POJO class with JAX-WS annotations(@WebService, @WebMethod) for converting it into webservice. Now i want to deploy it to Weblogic 11g. I followed the below steps. 1) In Maven POM.xml, i used "wsgen" goal to generate webservice artifacts. 2) Then generated a WAR file and deployed into the weblogic using weblogic ...
I am using the following code and would like to hear NVDA and JAWS announce my button when I roll over it. The JFrame name and title bar components are announced, but that is all. Can someone help? import javax.swing.JButton; import javax.swing.JPanel; import javax.swing.JFrame; //import javax.accessibility.*; public class JFrameExampl...
I'm trying to make an existing FLEX application section-508-compliant, by getting it to work smoothly with the JAWS screen reader. It kinda sorta works, but one immediate problem is that when you first go to the login screen, your cursor ends up in the userid field, but JAWS doesn't read anything useful (like the label of the field you'r...
I have a requirement that disabled JButton be read by JAWS version 9. i.e. if I have a JButton with the text "True", it ought to be read something like "True, disabled button". But when I use setEnabled(false) it no longer participates in the tab focus sequence, and therefore never gets read. Is it possible to make a disabled JButton rea...