Re: [orca-list] Clicking hotspot Links and Flat Review?

[Dave Hunt <ka1cey gmail com>]

What do these "fake" objects offer web site developers that their "real" 
counterparts do not?  The "fakes" are hard to handle with Orca and 
Firefox 7.  Sometimes, I can find and click them.


Cheers,


Dave




On 10/07/2011 05:10 PM, Mallory van Achterberg wrote:
> I just got back from a front-end conference where Derek Featherstone
> talked about exactly this: fake buttons, fake links, fake checkboxes
> and more... becoming more and more popular on the web.
> ...specifically Gmail and Amazon, though Twitter is similar.
>
> I'd like to be able to forward this to him, Steve, with your okay.
>
> Sometimes I wonder how far backwards we should expect screenreaders
> to bend when the problem isn't the screen readers in the first place.
>
> -Mallory
> On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 04:01:10AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to use the flat review to click hotspot links in
> > latest Firefox?  For one thing, I can't seem to review any screen
> > contents with flat review anymore; actually haven't been able to do
> > that for some time now.
> >
> > There are many pages that I can quote for an example.  My latest one
> > is with Twitter when I want to approve requests for followers.  the
> > accept and deny buttons are not normal links dected by Firefox and
> > Orca.  Google Apps has oodles of these type controls all over the
> > place.  My only choice now is to do this kind of stuff in Windows!
> >
> > Any solutions for this delema?  Oh, don't suggest anything like elinsk
> > or w3 because these buttons are "harmless" according to elinks thus do
> > nothing. and all the javascript that supports these controls - no go
> > for text browsers.
> >
> > Any other ideas? In the meantime, I guess it is off to Windows to deal
> > with these situations.
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