Re: [orca-list] Added preliminary structural navigation by image

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Can you turn a filter for it on and off?  Here's why I say this:

One of the applications I use to write courses is called Camtasia.  It's fairly common in the training world 
to use it for video-based learning that is embedded into webpages.  It plays in an html5 or flash player 
depending on the end-user's browser.  Trouble is, the video, by default, is paused inside the embedded 
player.  To play it, you have to click on an unlabeled thumbnail.  It's a royal pain.  You have to find the 
graphic with your mouse and then simulated mouse click it to get it to play.  Somehow or other, they've 
written the code such that it doesn't have an onclick event attached to it to make the screen reader 
recognize it as an onclick element in the dom.  It's just a graphic.  

There are tons of courses out there written with Camtasia which one encounters in the corporate world in the 
U.S.  If your screen reader has no way of finding unlabeled graphics on an html page, you just can't play 
them without sighted assistance.  Ironically enough, the html5 player itself is perfectly accessible once 
it's started right down to its controls, captions, quizzing ETC.  It's just the thumbnail you have to click 
on to load it that is not.  

Anyway, that's my two cents.

Alex M


-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Jason White
Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2014 6:54 PM
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Added preliminary structural navigation by image

kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com> wrote:
> If I had to choose, i'd choose to let orca filter out the stupid ones.
> As well as maybe ones without an alt= description? it doesn't really 
> do much good to have orca say there are 100 images, and 50 of them are 
> just image.

I agree. Also, those marked as role="presentation" should obviously be filtered out.

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