Re: [orca-list] A web-based accessible graphing calculator. Hurray!

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Peter.

I'll take a look. But that calculator relies mainly upon live regions
for access rather than Orca's native caret navigation and MathML support.

Thanks!
--joanie

On 05/29/2018 02:51 AM, Peter Vágner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This looks like a very accessible web app.
> It's a great way on how to experience orca's MathML support I guess.
>
> This calculator has so called expressions list. When I type an
> expression into one of the entries the expression is evaluated and orca
> reads it in full.
> Also as I'm pressing home and end keys it's reporting start / end of the
> expression. Is there a way to read such a MathML expression by members?
> For example just to test how this is working I have came up with a
> random expression like this
> \frac{3}{4}\cdot\frac{1}{2}
>
> When I navigate over the entry field in Firefox 62 by character (using
> left and right arrow keys) current fraction is often presented twice.
> Also the fraction is announced in full when I navigate to it however the
> bottom denominator does not appear to be reported to me. Orca just says
> after start fraction and then the whole fraction when navigating left to
> right and it is not reporting the bottom part of the fraction when
> navigating right to left.
>
> Please excuse me for a dumb question. This is all very new to me so
> perhaps I first need to learn it properly. Still if you can I would
> appreciate some hints.
>
>
> Greetings
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> Dňa 24.05.2018 o 20:05 Joanmarie Diggs napísal(a):
> > Hey all.
> >
> > I am currently at the week-long Web Accessibility of Mathematics
> > workshop at the American Institute of Mathematics. Just saw a demo of a
> > web-based accessible graphing calculator. It works with Orca. Hurray!!
> > https://www.desmos.com/calculator
> >
> > Note that you'll probably want to toggle Orca's sticky focus mode on
> > when using it because when you use the application's command to exit the
> > entry and interact with the graph exploration utilities, the app gives
> > the focus to some nameless button and that triggers Orca to switch back
> > to browse mode. I've requested they add role="application" to the body
> > element (like Google Docs does) which would prevent Orca from bouncing
> > you out of focus mode. In the meantime, when I enabled sticky focus mode
> > in Orca, the calculator worked quite well. I'm curious what you all
> > think.
> >
> > Happy graphing!
> > --joanie
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