Re: [orca-list] Speaking alerts in Firefox and patches that need testing

[Steve Holmes <steve holmesgrown com>]

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My only feeling concerning these dialogs, it things should be as
consistent as possible.  I'm not real experienced with some of the
exception dialogs in Firefox but as long as something tells you that
such a dialog has popped up and even if I have to explicitly focus it,
once I know about it, I can then get to it, hopefully without losing
my place on the web page.  Hope that makes sense.

On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 01:26:00PM -0400, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hi Hermann.
>
> Thanks for testing this!
>
> > I only hear that the installation of Webvisum has been prevented, that's
> > all. If I didn't know the dialog, I would not be able to figure out what
> > to do.
>
> That was the decision of our UI lead, Mike.  To be honest, I rather
> concur with him.  Here's my thinking, for what it's worth:
>
> Theres a finite number of these type of alerts -- at least at the
> moment.  I'm aware only of the "remember this password" and the "firefox
> has blocked this" ones.  They have buttons that are consistent and which
> have consistent hotkeys.  And if you're interested in navigating to the
> alert, it's Control+L plus 2 or 3 presses of Tab. (i.e. you can get
> there relatively quickly if you care to do so and don't know what the
> hotkeys are).
>
> If for each button we'd speak the button name, the fact that it's a
> button, and the hotkey, the button string spoken would be about as long
> as the alert message itself, and once you've become familiar with that
> alert you already know what the buttons are. Thus reading the button
> names and hotkeys strikes me as unnecessary verbiage.
>
> All of this said:
>
> 1. I could certainly add the speaking of the buttons if the user
> community feels that is what should be done.  Regardless, however:
>
> 2. Firefox doesn't expose hotkeys to us at the moment.  Until they do,
> you will still need to physically move focus to the alert or obtain the
> hotkeys through some other means. :-(  That Mozilla bug can be found
> here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440568
>
> Thanks again!  Take care.
> --Joanie
>
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