[Blindmath] [POSSIBLE SPAM] Re: [research] website accessibility

Tue Dec 7 16:02:55 UTC 2010

m.facebook.com or www.gmail.com (after you have turned on the basic
html interface, you should only hve to do that once).

Cool thing about GMail is that student can realize how using different
html elements hotkeys can speed up navigation.
To go to inbox use alt-i (AccessKey, I know it is not a WCAG 2.0
recommendation though, but I find it durn useful sometimes).
To see first message, press "x" because it takes you to the first check box.
To delete or archive multiple emails press x to get to the inbox, then
press space bar if you want to apply the operation to that message,
then go down to the next message by pressing x again and so on, then
press b to get to the buttons (delete, archive etc).
to activate that button press enter.
So to delete the first to message you only have to:
press x, space bar, x, spacebar, b, tab (to get to the next button, b
will work too) and enter, done.
To reply to a message, press enter on it and then e to get into the
edit field (and enter to go into forms mode, depending on your Jaws
settings, I turn my autoforms mode off every time).
Then type away, when you are done go out of forms mode and press b to
find the "send" button.
This is very quick and very effective.
Other useful pge elements are h for heading (or use the number keys at
the top of the keyboard to go to different level headings) and t or l
(for table or list).
For instance, if you go to www.nhl.com/scores and want to see the
scores in various hockey games, you press t and it takes you to the
table with the info for each game (warning, that site uses some very
annoying JavaScript component that can mess with Jaws and,
occaionslly, crash IE).

That's enough and I apologize, we should probably keep this discussion off-list.
It is hard to stretch this discussion to mathematics so I won't post
again about this, you can contact me privately if you wish.
Thanks
-Birkir

On 12/7/10, Maureen Lewicki <mlewicki at bcsd.neric.org> wrote:
> Sina, I would love to see the results of this survey! I am trying to
> teach a blind student how to use JAWS, and would love to know which
> websites are easily accessible for the beginner elementary student, and
> which might be helpful to use to practice with. Suggestions anyone?
>
> Maureen Murphy Lewicki
> Teacher of Visually Impaired
> Bethlehem Central Schools
> (518)439-7681
> "When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought
> in our life, or in the life of another." Helen Keller
>
>
>>>> "Sina Bahram" <sbahram at nc.rr.com> 12/6/2010 7:42 PM >>>
> Thanks much, and also, I'd love your responses too.
>
> Take care,
> Sina
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Birkir Rúnar
> Gunnarsson
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 7:29 PM
> To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] [research] website accessibility
>
> Sina
>
> I posted it both to the WebAIM mailing list and the IVIS project list
> (Nordic web accessibility intiative I can tell you more about
> off-list).
> Hope you'll get some responses.
> I subscribe to the program-l list, not to BlindProgramming. I just have
> not been doing many programming related things recently, so
> I've been keeping my mail traffic down.
> Thanks and be well.
> -Birkir
>
>
> On 12/3/10, Sina Bahram <sbahram at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>> Birkir,
>>
>> Thanks for this message.
>>
>> That would be fantastic if you would please. I posted  it to the
> blind
>> programming list already, but if there's a different programming list
>
>> you're talking about, then please post it. And of course I'd love it
>
>> posted on the webaim list.
>>
>> I also look forward to your responses this weekend.
>>
>> Thank you again.
>>
>>
>> Take care,
>> Sina
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org
>> [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Birkir Rúnar
>> Gunnarsson
>> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 12:39 AM
>> To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
>> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] [research] website accessibility
>>
>> Sina
>>
>> Why not post this to the WebAIM mailing list as well as the
>> Programming list?
>> There are more users and it is even more likely to be tied to web
>> accessibility.
>> I can post this for you if you want as well as reposting it to a
> group
>> of Nordic users that is doing some web related research and may have
>
>> quite a few power users in their ranks.
>> I'll reply over the weekend myself.
>> Good luck and please let me know (on or off list) if you want me to
>> take care of the reposting anywhere.
>> Thanks
>> -B
>>
>> On 12/2/10, Sina Bahram <sbahram at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> As part of a potential publication, I'm conducting research related
>
>>> to website accessibility. I would really appreciate for you to send
>
>>> me a quick email answering these three questions.
>>>
>>> Please only answer if you are a screen reader user.
>>>
>>> First, please put "[research]", that's left-bracket, research,
>>> right-bracket, in the subject line of the email.
>>>
>>> My email address is:
>>> sbahram at ncsu.edu
>>>
>>> Question 1:
>>> What website or websites do you find the most accessible. Please
> list
>>> full URL's.
>>>
>>> Question 2:
>>> What website or websites do you find the least accessible. Please
>>> list full URL's.
>>>
>>> Question 3:
>>> What website, or websites, do you have to use, whether it be for
>>> work, school, business, or anything else, even though they might not
>
>>> be as accessible as you prefer? Please list full URL's.
>>>
>>> Optional section:
>>>
>>> Feel free to explain your answers further in this section; for
>>> example, why you feel a certain website is accessible or not
>>> accessible.
>>>
>>> Thank you so much for your participation. If I don't get at least 20
>
>>> or 30 respondents, we won't really be able to use the data, so
> please
>>> forward this email to anyone at all who uses a screen reader.
>>>
>>> Your provided URL's
>  will of course be made anonymous as soon as I
> get
>>> them.
>>>
>>> Thanks again
>>>
>>> Take care,
>>> Sina
>>>
>>>
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