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Implementation Review of JAWS (with Internet Explorer 6.0) 4.02
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Subject: JAWS (with Internet Explorer 6.0) 4.02
Operating System: Windows 9x/Me/2000/XP
Formats: HTML 4.01, CSS1, CSS2 and SMIL 2.0
Date: 8 April 2002
Guidelines: User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 ( W3C Candidate Recommendation, 12 September 2001 )
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Reviewer
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Name: David Poehlman and Jon Gunderson
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Affliation: Consultant
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Phone:
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E-mail: poehlman1@comcast.net
Complete Implementation
Total checkpoints: 57
Very Good Implementation
Total checkpoints: 6
Good Implementation
Total checkpoints: 5
Poor Implementation
Total checkpoints: 4
Not Implementation
Total checkpoints: 14
Not Applicable
Total checkpoints: 2
Not Rated
Total checkpoints: 2
Rating: VG
Comments
- Can select subsets of content
- Reads tooltips
- Cannot interact with an
embedded plugin or applett
Rating: G
Comments
- onMouseOver, onMouseDown, onMouseUp, onMouseMove: can simulate with keyboard using JAWS commands
- onClick, onDBClick: OnClick supported by Enter key in IE when element has focus and JAWS can simulate a double click
- Can you navigate to elements with event handlers??
Rating: C
Comments
- Status line used to display context sensitive information. Does not provide speech of other audio only messages.
Rating: C
Comments
- Renders HTML, CSS, a number of graphic image formats and some audio formats. Does not contradict current specifications for HTML and CSS rendering.
Rating: C
Comments
- Provides a source view of documents and source view of frame elements
Rating: G
Comments
- ALT for IMG: JAWS reads ALT when viewing image
- TITLE for IMG element: JAWS will speak title if no ALT text
- LONGDESC for IMG element: not supported
- content of OBJECT element: Some information from objects is available
- ALT for AREA element: JAWS reads ALT when viewing image
- ALT for INPUT element: JAWS reads ALT when viewing image
- ACRONYM element: not supported
- TITLE for MAP: not supported
- ABBR element: not implemented
- SUMMARY for TABLE: not implemented
- TITLE for FRAME: JAWS can read title
- LONGDESC for FRAME: not implemented
- NOFRAME for FRAME: not implemented
- NOSCRIPT for SCRIPT: not supported
Rating: NI
Comments
- No way to control an HTML+TIME (SMIL 2.0) presentation
Rating: C
Comments
- Uses windows system caption ("show sounds") feature
Rating: C
Comments
- I didn't test this completely, but it seems to work for the demos we have done
Rating: VG
Comments
- Missing ALT for IMG: JAWS speaks TITLE or speaks file name when viewing image
- Missing ALT for AREA element: JAWS speaks TITLE or speaks file name when viewing image
- Missing ALT for INPUT element: JAWS speaks TITLE or speaks file name or repairs with "button" when viewing image
- Missing TITLE for FRAME: JAWS reads name attribute
- No other missing conditional content elements generate repair text
Rating: C
Comments
- Ignores images when ALT="" for an image image icon
Rating: G
Comments
- ALT for IMG: Spoken by default and can be configured
- TITLE for IMG element: Spoken if there is no ALT attribute
- LONGDESC for IMG element: not supported???
- content of OBJECT element: not supported
- ALT for AREA element: Spoken by default
- ALT for INPUT element: Spoken by default
- ACRONYM element: not supported
- ABBR element: not supported
- SUMMARY for TABLE: supported
- TITLE for FRAME: supported
- LONGDESC for FRAME: not supported
- NOFRAME for FRAME: not supported because ie does not allow for disabling of frames
- NOSCRIPT for SCRIPT: IE does render NOSCRIPT when script support is turned off
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: C
Comments
- Turning off images, also turns off background images
Rating: C
Comments
- Audo, video and animations can be turned off
Rating: C
Comments
- Animcations can be turned off
Rating: C
Comments
- Scripts can be turned off
Rating: NI
Comments
- The user cannot override automatic refreshing of a web document
Rating: NI
Comments
- The user cannot override automatic redirection of a web document
Rating: C
Comments
- Images can be configured not to be rendered (JAWS doesn't render images)
Rating: C
Comments
- Uses IE 6.0 font changing capabilities
- JAWS menus can be adjusted through system color options
- Five levels of user choice through the view menu options. If an author has specified any fixed font sizes in the document, the user must configure the browser to ignore author font sizes in the accessibility control panel
- Greater control through the use of user style sheet
- Not as easy as Opera or Netscape
Rating: C
Comments
- Through options dialog box options or user style sheet
Rating: C
Comments
- Through options dialog box options or user style sheet
Rating: NI
Comments
- No control over HTML+Time presentations
Rating: NI
Comments
- No control over HTML+Time presentations
Rating: NR
Comments
- Not sure if IE supports the rendering of captions natively
Rating: NI
Comments
- Cannot control animation rate of animated images
Rating: NI
Comments
- Cannot control the playing of background sounds
Rating: C
Comments
- Volume controled through Windows OS volume control
- JAWS also has volume keyboard commands
Rating: C
Comments
- Synthesizer volume can be controlled independently of other audio sources, through either JAWS features or OS mixer
Rating: NA
No Comments
Rating: C
Comments
- JAWS configuration settings
- Independent volume control for different cursors
Rating: C
Comments
- JAWS configuration settings
- Independent volume control for different cursors
Rating: C
Comments
- JAWS configuration settings
Rating: C
Comments
- JAWS configuration settings
Rating: C
Comments
- JAWS configuration settings
Rating: C
Comments
- Allows the user to specify one user style sheet at a time
Rating: NI
Comments
- User cannot control automatic focus changes to new windows when they are opened
Rating: NI
Comments
- Use cannot control what view port remains on top when new windows are opened.
Rating: NI
Comments
- User is not prompted to open a new viewport
Rating: C
Comments
- When focus and/or selection changes they are in the viewport
Rating: P
Comments
- Provides configuration for promting of form submission only under the condition that the connection is not secure
Rating: NA
Comments
- Does not implement fee links
Rating: NI
Comments
- The user does not have any control over a script that destroys a window
Rating: C
Comments
- JAWS uses there own parallel DOM
- Does not impede others from using IE DOM
Rating: C
Comments
- Can use COM interface to modify the DOM
Rating: C
Comments
- Access to directories through active accessibility
- Access to text through active accessibility
- Access to error text through active accessibility
Rating: C
Comments
- Uses Active Accessibility to provide program access to controls
Rating: C
Comments
- Uses Active Accessibility to generate change events to assistive technology
Rating: C
Comments
- Uses standard keyboard API, works with a number of assistive technologies and built-in accessibility features of Windows OS
Rating: C
Comments
Rating: VG
Comments
- Provides access to styling information of elements
Rating: C
Comments
- Primarily use out of process communication with IE controls and data
Rating: C
Comments
- Uses standard focus and highlighting mechanisms
Rating: C
Comments
- Have not observed any problems
Rating: C
Comments
- Uses OS settings for initial font and color information in user interface and some content renderings
Rating: C
Comments
- Using underlined characters in menus to indicate shortcut keys in menus
- Uses OS conventions for cut, copy and paste
- Uses standard menu bars, toolbars and dialog box conventions
Rating: NR
Comments
- HTML: TH element (TABLE), yes
- HTML: CAPTION element (TABLE), yes
- HTML: THEAD element (TABLE), yes available through the DOM
- HTML: TBODY element (TABLE), yes available through the DOM
- HTML: TFOOT element (TABLE), yes available through the DOM
- HTML: COLGROUP element (TABLE), yes available through the DOM
- HTML: COL element (TABLE), yes available through the DOM
- HTML: SCOPE attribute (TABLE), yes available through the DOM
- HTML: HEADERS attribute (TABLE), yes available through the DOM
- HTML: AXIS attribute (TABLE), yes available through the DOM
- HTML: TABINDEX attribute, yes
- HTML: ACCESSKEY attribute, yes
- CSS: TEXT-INDENT, yes
- CSS: TEXT-ALIGN, yes
- CSS: WORD-SPACING, yes
- CSS: LETTER-SPACING, yes
- CSS: FONT-STRETCH, no
- CSS: MARGIN, yes
- CSS: FLOAT and CLEAR, yes
- CSS: POSITION, yes
- CSS: !IMPORTANT, NR
- CSS: SYSTEM FONTS, NR
- CSS: SYSTEM COLORS, NR
- CSS: list types, yes
- CSS: OUTLINE, no
- CSS: :before, :after, no
- CSS: :hover, yes
- CSS: :visited, :unvisited, yes
Rating: VG
Comments
- HTML 4.01: VG
- CSS1: VG
- CSS2: G
- DOM 1.0: C
- SMIL 2.0: G, difference in implementation, not sure how much of the specification is imaplemented
Rating: C
Comments
Rating: C
Comments
- Provides a user interface focus
Rating: C
Comments
- Provides sequential access to links and input form controls
- Cannot navigate to non-links and non-input form controls with event handlers
Rating: C
Comments
- Restores focus and view position as previous windows are navigated with the back command
Rating: P
Comments
- User cannot turnoff only the activation of input events
- Can turn off scripting, but then no event processing is available
Rating: P
Comments
- Can only view in source view
- JAWS does not provide information about event handlers
Rating: VG
Comments
- Provides sequential access toall HTML content
- Can navigate to just links or form controls, table cells and other elements which are not links or form controlls but are editible
- Same features as for 9.3
Rating: C
Comments
- Provides forward and reverse text search capability from the element with the current focus/selection, with and without case sensitivity
Rating: G
Comments
- Navigation to Headers: yes
- Navigation to or skip MAP elements: no
- Navigatoin to List elements (OL, UL, DL): no
- Navigation to Links: yes
- Navigation to Form controls: yes
- Navigation to block level elements: no
- Navigation to in-line level elements: no
- Navigation to embedded applications or controls: Some Active-X controls and no Applets
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: G
Comments
- Provide proper relationships in graphical rendering of table markup
- Speaks first row and column in a table
Rating: C
Comments
- Speaks current element content with focus
- Can style speech
- Other graphical features provided by IE
Rating: C
Comments
- JAWS can provide voice configuration for different cursors
Rating: C
Comments
- User can query link for some information using JAWS
- Use system colors by default
- Underlines links by default
- Can user CSS for user styling of elements
Rating: P
Comments
- Can use a user style sheet to implement an outline
- Controls to change style sheets are awkward
Rating: C
Comments
- JAWS command to query link for information
Rating: C
Comments
- JAWS command to speak current viewport
Rating: C
Comments
- Status bar can be read by JAWS
- Provides a text message in the status bar of progress in loading a resource
Rating: C
Comments
- Extensive keyboard shortcut information
Rating: C
Comments
- Can list current ACCESSKEYs in the document
Rating: C
Comments
- Can configure JAWS configuration and scripts to create new keyboard bindings, somewhat technical
Rating: C
Comments
- Can configure JAWS configuration and scripts to create new keyboard bindings, somewhat technical
Rating: VG
Comments
- Move focus to next enabled element: yes
- Move focus to previous enabled element: yes
- Activate focused link: yes
- Search for text: yes
- Search again for same text: yes
- Increase size of rendered text: yes
- Decrease size of rendered text: yes
- Increase global volume: yes
- Decrease global volume: yes
- Stop, pause, resume, fast advance, and fast reverse selected audio and animations (including video and animated images): because IE does not provide
- Next history state (forward): yes
- Previous history state (back): yes
- Enter URI for new resource: yes
- Add to favorites (i.e., bookmarked resources): yes
- View favorites: yes
- Stop loading resource: yes
- Reload resource: yes
- Refresh rendering: yes
- Forward one viewport: yes
- Back one viewport: yes
- Next line: yes
- Previous line: yes
Rating: C
Comments
- JAWS configuration can be saved and customized for different users
- Can use style sheets for some configuration information
- In network environments, setting can be saved as part of user network profiles
Rating: C
Comments
- Can turn on and off entire tool bars
- Can customize the number, position and size of the buttons on the toolbar
Rating: C
Comments
- Uses HTML for documentation
Rating: C
Comments
- Provides multiple topics in a keyword search on either accessibility or disability
Rating: C
Comments
- Provides extensive information on default keyboard bindings
Rating: C
Comments
- JAWS usually provides a list of new capabilities with each release
Rating: C
Comments
- Table of content has a first level topic on accessibility
Jon Gunderson (Jon Gunderson)
Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org)
Last revised: $Date: 2004/03/09 18:53:40 $
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