Re: [orca-list] links list

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Never mind.  You don't understand.  They don't often do the right thing.
They don't fix the web application.  They expect you to deal with it as best
you can as it is, perfect a11y or not.  You are one user out of 20 or 30
thousand.  There are tons of bugs that affect those other users and there's
the one bug that affects you.  You never get that fixed.  So, client side
becomes a must.  It doesn't matter if it's right or wrong, best practice or
not, ETc.  All that matters is, "How in the world do I get this to work for
me?"  It's not a public-facing application.  It's an internal, proprietary,
specialized product built by and for your organization.  Image alternate
tags, keyboard navigation and text resizing are usually as far as it gets.
You mention Aria and they don't know what you are talking aboutl.  I have
lived it.  As recently as this year.  The cost to make it work wel for one
employee isn't enough to justify them coughing up the goods.  In the
corporate world, it's all about the money in the end.


Thanks for discussing it though.  Have a good one.  I'm off to bed.

Best regards,

Alex M


-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On
Behalf Of 'Jason White'
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 2:36 AM
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] links list

Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com> wrote:
> How would you account for dropdown menu items disappearing as your 
> focus moves away from them?

I don't understand why you think that would be an issue, but it seems
increasingly to be a problem worthy of scripting and Aria rather than one
requiring features to be added to Orca. I would have to understand the
application and the user's interaction with it in more detail to give you a
more specific recommendation. Maybe the script could add access keys to move
to the menu and additional access keys for commonly used menu items, for
example. If the Web application can be modified to improve accessibility (as
it should be), then all of this can be done once and for all in the
application instead of relying on scripting on the client side.

Note that Aria is specifically designed to handle dynamically changing
content and that Orca supports Aria via Firefox.

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