[access-uk] Re: Accessible Podcast Downloader
- From: Douglas Harrison <harrison1d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:52:03 -0000
Sorry Alasdair if I appeared to be criticising - that was not intended. I
quite
understand the difficulty in making a product compatible with a range of
screen readers. I have just tried Window-eyes, NVDA and Thunder and
they all behave slightly differently in this particular context from Hal, my
usual screen reader.
I don't think that there is any problem as Accessible Podcast Downloader
stands- just takes a minute or two to realise what is happening. I think that
I
had half expected, without any reason, that it would act in the same way as
the Accessible Podcatcher where cursoring down selects an item.
Douglas
On 5 Nov 2007 at 23:11, Alasdair King wrote:
> Right: I put the word "selected" or "unselected" after each item
> because Narrator and JAWS don't properly announce the state of the
> item. Clearly this causes problems for some other screenreaders. I'm
> going to go with how it works now, because that supports (1) Narrator
> and (2) JAWS but I'll test it out again to see if the logic works.
>
> Cheers,
> Alasdair
>
> On Oct 31, 2007 8:07 AM, Douglas Harrison <harrison1d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Alasdair and Ari,
> >
> > Screen readers seem to give two status announcements as you cursor
> > down the list and this may cause confusion. Window-eyes says "Not
> > Selected" or "Unselected" twice as the focus moves to each item, but Hal
> > says "Unselected" followed by "Selected" presumably because the line in
> > question has focus.
> > Initially with the latter I thought that the particular feed was Selected
> > simply
> > by moving to it, but in fact I have to press spacebarbefore I can download
> > anything.
> >
> > hope that helps,
> >
> > douglas
>
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Douglas Harrison
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