[nabs-l] jaws and website help

[Ashley Bramlett]

Hi all,

I’m dealing with another accessibility problem. The community college, Nova, website has been redesigned.
Specifically, the library part of the site is a mess in my opinion. Here is the layout. Instead of links like they had in the past, they now have four tabs. I usually tab to the links or use the links list. But when that did not work, I arrowed down the page. It was then that I realized these tabs. They are categorized. I liked it the old way when I could use the list links view by pressing insert f 7.


The technology librarian explained that you open the tab and then click on the link you want within that tab. For instance, click on e media tab and then videos. Within that subtab are three links of various types of videos.
I have a very difficult time even finding the tabs because as you all know, jaws doesn’t have a quick key for that. We can press H for heading, tab key to move to links, and l for list items, but nothing for the tabs.
I finally was able to open the tabs with enter but I could not get out of it by pressing tab; so I pressed escape to then explore the rest of the page.
So my questions.
1. Have you navigated tabs and how did you do it? Sighted people can expand one or multiple tabs at once and look through their options.

2. How do you know what links are in that tab versus just links on the page?
3. How do you know when you have to press the right mouse button? For me, it seems to be trial and error. If pressing enter does not work, I press the right mouse button key when I’m at that link.
Oh and this might help me find items. What is that command to put place markers on the webpage?
Thanks.
Ashley


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