[orca-list] Accessing Gmail (was Re: form field structural navigation)

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie diggs gmail com>]

Hi Krishnakant.

> but when I move with the tab key I never here the form field lables
> like to:,  cc: and bcc: when I am actually landind in those fields.
> same effect with the new insert tab.  

This is what I was talking about in terms of there being two issues with 
respect to form field navigation.  This would be an excellent example of 
issue 2.

The Gmail site does not use labels.  They merely place the text that is 
serving as the label in a table cell next to the table cell that 
contains the entry.  This places browsers such as Firefox and screen 
readers such as Orca in the position of having to guess what the entry's 
label is.  As I mentioned in an earlier list message, implementing this 
guesswork is on both team's plates but such things take time.  Plus, 
guesswork is just that.  We might guess wrong and speak the wrong label. 
Therefore....

Srinivas, if you're listening.... :-)  It would be awesome if Gmail (and 
for that matter all of the Google forms) started using labels.  For 
instance:

<label for="cc">CC:</label>
<input id="cc" value="" type=text size=40 class=i>

Should cause Orca (and for that matter all screen readers) to correctly 
speak the label automatically.  Any chance that could get added to the 
Google Accessibility Team's to-do list?

> but when I pressed the h of hello, orca announced "no more headings found".

I'll look at that further and see what I can figure out.  Thanks!
--Joanie