[jawsscripts] Re: testing for element attributes from whence jaws derives its labels.
- From: "Homme, James" <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 19:53:57 +0000
Hi,
If you are talking about the Firefox Accessibility Evaluator, I found a bug in
it that causes it to not evaluate form controls without them being inside a
form tag. This caused us a lot of false positives on a project in which I had
to argue with people who thought they had accessible code, when they didn't. My
developer friends wanted to believe the false output from the Firefox
Accessibility Evaluator over a human. I cannot speak for the evaluation tool in
IE. Also, keep in mind that these tools do not necessarily keep up with the
latest in mark-up. Use at your own risk.
Jim
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[mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jonathan C. Cohn
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 7:14 AM
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Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: testing for element attributes from whence jaws
derives it's labels.
The Web Accessibility Tool that is a plugin to either Firefox or IE will scan
the entire page and find labels that are associated with form fields. I don't
remember at this time if that area of the WAT is accessible. I do remember that
I needed to memorize a few keystrokes. Or something could be written in JAWS
using the dictionary collections to sweep up all the tages with label
attributes and then associate them with items on the screen. Only thing that
might be difficult is that if a Label group is a parent of the form field,
then I seem to remember not needing one of the attributes.
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