[jawsscripts] Re: Accessibility, Usability and Scripting

  • From: "Don Mauck" <don.mauck@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 12:51:16 -0600

I absolutely agree, scripting should be treated as a bolt on not the end all to 
making something accessible.   



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Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Accessibility, Usability and Scripting

Please note,
Accessibility should not require scripting. If it designed, from day one, with 
accessibility in mind, it should be accessible without scripting or any special 
function.

 


Daniel Tang
Accessibility Specialist     CCIE # 3681
Cisco Systems
170 W. Tasman
San Jose, CA 95134
Phone: 408 526 7814
Email: dtang@xxxxxxxxx

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Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Accessibility, Usability and Scripting

Hi,
If possible, can you please be specific about any issues you are coming up 
against. That way, we can better help you solve them.

While we are being general, I try to separate in my mind which key strokes are 
JAWS related and which are application related. That helps me figure out 
whether there is an access problem with the application I am using or whether 
the scripts for JAWS need to be changed.

Thanks.

Jim

James D Homme,
Usability Engineering
Highmark Inc.
james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx
412-544-1810

"It's more important for me to start to do the right thing than it is to wait 
until I think I can do it just right."



 

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Hi folks,

I would like to know your take on a subject which raises hot debats in my 
workplace and that is how much scripting is really necessary for an application.

Based on this business standards, application accessibility means the existance 
of methods for getting the information on the screen and interact with it.

It doesn't take into account, the time it takes to reach to a specific piece of 
information and the needed energy to filter the unwanted announcements.

The JAWS cursor is not only, not assumed the last resort, but also is assumed 
to be used, as the main tool for static information retrieval, according to 
this standard.

This way, other than applications with graphic components without alternative 
text, the rest can be catagorized accessible since by using JAWS cursor 
eventually one can get to any place and if direct keyboard interaction is not 
possible then keyboard equivalents of mouse clicks can be utilized.

The rest falls in the realm of usability.

The business believes that it's responsible to provide accessibility as defined 
above and anything beyond that is just icing on the cake.

My approach to this subject, is to see the big picture. Taking into account all 
the stress, frustration and the time that is getting wasted navigating a not 
properly laid out screen together with filtering unwanted audio data.

This way not only total accessibilty should be provided but a highly usable 
interface is the winning card.

What I mean by highly usable interface, is a kind of intelligent interface for 
the application which provides such facilities as:
Instant anouncement of the value of each field by typing the very first letters 
of its label Automatic announcement of live data when they change Availability 
of hotkeys to activate major tasks Suppressing extra announcements

I highly appreciate your input.

Thanks,

Kamil




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