[nfbcs] Making website accessible

[Tracy Carcione]

Thanks for the suggestions.
Whatever they did, yesterday I was able to successfully fill out the form!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nicole Torcolini" <ntorcolini at wavecable.com>
To: "'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List'" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Making website accessible


> Have you asked them if there is some sort of difference between the two
> different parts of the website? I would recommend trying it with another
> browser and/or another screen reader. Finally, if you navigate to the 
> second
> part of the page and then restart JAWS, what happens? Have you tried
> updating the screen with JAWS key escape? Do you know any HTML? Sometimes
> taking a look at what is going on under the hood can provide a lot of
> information.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jude DaShiell
> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 4:47 PM
> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Making website accessible
>
> 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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