Hi Will,
You might remember me from CSUN. I want to understand the current support of Orca with ARIA enabled web apps. Specifically, I want to understand if any testing has been done with Gmail. Several changes have been done recently to Gmail to improve accessibility (some are enumerated below for your reference)
Try these on FF3 for best results. These changes are already in the public version
and anybody can try them out, but you should know that some of the ARIA
changes are still experimental.
- Status message is navigable via Tab and allows an Enter key press
for text entry of new status message. You should also see "Set status
here" in accName (both in read-only or while in edit mode).
- Status menu (right next to status message in Tab order) is
exposed as menu button in MSAA and takes Enter key (currently no arrow
key support) to show the status menu. Initial focus will be on the
entire menu and takes up, down arrow keys to navigate through menu
items. ARIA roles are exposed for the menu as well as for each menu
item. Esc on the menu works but currently does not set the focus back
to the status menu.
- Contact list is now exposed on ARIA list and is part of the tab
order. Up, down arrow keys are supported to navigate through the menu.
Pressing Enter on any chat takes the default action -- which is to open
Chat for available or idle contacts and compose mail for offline
contacts. When chat is open focus will be moved to the text entry field
in chat. There is lot of ARIA usage here and some may be experimental.
- While in the chat entry, pressing Ctrl+Down arrow (this shortcut
key is not advertised to public yet) will take you to the first button
(Options) in the bottom toolbar. Options is a menu button and supports
Enter key to open up Options menu. The menu as well as the menu items
have right ARIA roles and use activedescendant to expose the selected
menu item.
- While the focus is on the Options menu button, pressing TAB will
take you to the next button in toolbar which is pop-out, which is a
button and accepts Enter key to open up Chat in a tear off window.
Hoping to hear back from you with any comments/questions.
--
Srinivas Annam
Software Engineer, Accessibility
Google, Inc.
Cell: 408.898.4928
Email:
annams google com
