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

[Mallory van Achterberg <stommepoes stommepoes nl>]

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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