Re: Accessibility and Web UI

[Josh Thompson <jo...@ncsu.edu>]

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Aaron,

We have had a guy that is blind do a fair amount of testing of our VCL site.  
However, that may have been before I switched to using the dojo widget.  I'll 
see if I can have him test it again.

Josh

On Saturday, June 29, 2013 1:53:03 AM Aaron Coburn wrote:
> Hi, Folks,
> I am curious to know whether any of you has experience writing custom VCL
> themes that are more friendly for screen readers? At present I'm leaving
> aside the issue of having a screen reader work inside a remote (RDP)
> session (there are actually ways to get this to work, but that is a
> slightly different issue).
> 
> For example, the reservation drop-down list really tripped up a blind user
> trying to initiate a request (using JAWS, which is one of the more common
> screen readers for Windows). It appears to have something to do with the
> fact that the HTML indicates a <select> menu, but it also functions
> somewhat like an input field -- using the Dojo tools. In any case, it was
> not really feasible for the browser to navigate through the list of
> environments.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> Aaron
> 
> 
> --
> Aaron Coburn
> Academic Technology Services, Amherst College
> acoburn@amherst.edu<ma...@amherst.edu>
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