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

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

So, like other things we need a way to toggle between showing all graphics, (not default), and showing those 
with some 
more obviouslyl  usable information, (default).
My half cent.

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 10:50:18AM -0500, Alex Midence wrote:
> 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
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> 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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