There is a requirement in Section 508 to code a "Skip Navigation" at the top of all web pages in order to allow the Seeing Impaired to bypass lengthy and repetitive top navigation. Originally, I thought the best way to do this would be to put the words in the page and use CSS "display:none" to not show them. But I have read that you can...
Hi friends, I researched at google and found many confusing, looooong explanations for Section 508! made me even more confused. very simply, what is this Section 508? Thanks a lot! ...
I am trying to detect for the presence of assistive technology using flash. When a Flash movie holding the actionscript below on frame 1 is loaded (and screenreader chatting to IE or Firefox over MSAA is active -- JAWS or NVDA), Accessibility.isActive() does not return "true" until the movie is focused. Well, actually not until some "e...
Hi, If I want to have a question with a "Yes/No" radio button. How do I need to mark up the code so that a screen reader reads the question associated with the "yes/no" selection instead of just reading the "Yes" and "No" labels when the radio buttons are selected? <span>Did you understand this? (choose one) </span> <label> <input type...
I think I understand HOW Javascript has to work in order to be O.K. for section 508. But I have been unable to find an answer to a related question: does my site need to work WITHOUT Javascript in order to be section 508 compliant? To take an extreme case, if users without Javascript cannot log in, does that violate section 508 complia...
Is DotNetNuke currently ADA 508 compliant? I realize that it depends on how you use it, but I'm talking about out of the box, core modules, etc. ...
I have a site which authenticates a user for a given time period and on any subsequent page request that time interval is extended. I am wondering how to notify users their time is about to expire without using a js.alert() but also remain accessible. I have seen some sites where content will slide in from the top and not intrude the ...
One of the 508 compliance rules are that all OBJECT tags should contain element content. I'm not familiar with OBJECT tags or anything, but what should the content usually be? I noticed if I just put any string within the OBJECT tags I seem to pass the 508 test. Is it acceptable to put anything within the OBJECT tags to make this pass v...
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? ...
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. ...
Hi, I have one issue related to JTree swing component, I want to use JTree under Windows high contrast Mode, but it never shows tree nodes according to windows High contrast theme. Jtree view Under Normal Mode Jtree view Under High Contrast Mode Eclipse Package Explorer view Under Normal Mode Eclipse Package Explorer view Un...
I run a site (ASP.NET) for a company that is in different counties, based on the link the user clicks on the landing page all the tags on the page gets a string of the county added to the end of it href tag. (ex. www.somedomain.com/home.aspx?county=x ) I then use the querystring to provide county specific information. Is this out ...
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...
I have a Swing application which consists of a single JFrame set to Always On Top. When running under Windows, I use the following code to open the the native default email client and browser respectively: Runtime.getRuntime().exec("rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler " + Utils.formatMailtoUrl(to, subject, body)); Runtime.getRuntime()...