[nfbcs] Making website accessible

[Jude DaShiell]

http://governor.state.tx.us/disabilities/accessibledocs/ ought to help a 
little.
On Mon, 2 Dec 2013, Tracy Carcione wrote:

> The inhouse web designers in my office are creating a new website where we
> will be putting in all kinds of data on user requests.  I'm working with
> them to make sure it's accessible, and, so far, it's not.
> It works fine for a while, tabbing through fields and either typing or
> checking boxes or selecting from a combo box.  But, when I select myself
> as the assigned worker, the site refreshs, and Jaws says it's on the URL
> address from then on.  I have tried switching to the Jaws cursor, finding
> something inside the webpage, and yanking the cursor there using the
> braille display.  That trick usually works, but not in this case.  The
> only place I can yank the cursor to is a couple checkboxes at the end of
> the webpage, and I can't get back to the place I need to be to put in more
> information.
> Oddly enough, the sighted person helping me sees the cursor where it
> should be, but Jaws does not.
> The inhouse guys are very willing to fix it, but they're not sure what's
> happening, and neither am I.
> I told them about accessible web guidelines, somewhere on the internet.
> I'd be happy to pass along any ideas anyone might have.  I'm not a web
> designer, so don't know anything about what might be wrong.
> I am running Jaws 14 and IE8.  IE8 is still the most common IE here.
> I'm not even sure if it's a Jaws problem or a website pproblem.
> TIA.
> Tracy
> 
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