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Implementation Review of Internet Explorer with JAWS 5.5 and 3.7
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Subject: Internet Explorer with JAWS 5.5 and 3.7
Operating System: Microsoft Windows
Formats: HTML 4.01. CSS1 and CSS2
Date: 14 August 2001
Guidelines: User Agent Accessibility Guidelines ( 31 July Working Draft )
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Reviewer
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Name: Jon Gunderson
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Affliation: UIUC
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Phone: (217) 244-5870
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E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu
Complete Implementation
Total checkpoints: 51
Very Good Implementation
Total checkpoints: 8
Good Implementation
Total checkpoints: 8
Poor Implementation
Total checkpoints: 5
Not Implementation
Total checkpoints: 9
Not Applicable
Total checkpoints: 8
Not Rated
Total checkpoints: 1
Rating: VG
Comments
- Access to tooltips
- Selection of subsets of content
Rating: VG
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
- onChange: On selection boxes generated as viewers move highlight with the up and down arrows of the keyboard, should only generate event with a Enter key
- onFocus and onBlur: Cannot be activated with pointer
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: not supported
- ALT for AREA element: rendered when images turned off
- ALT for INPUT element: rendered when images turned off
- ACRONYM element: not supported
- ABBR element: not supported
- SUMMARY for TABLE: not supported
- TITLE for FRAME: JAWS can read title??
- LONGDESC for FRAME: not supported
- NOFRAME for FRAME: not supported
- NOSCRIPT for SCRIPT: not supported??
Rating: NA
No Comments
Rating: NA
Comments
Rating: NA
Comments
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 when viewing image??
- Missing TITLE for FRAME: JAWS can reads name??
Rating: C
Comments
- Can be configured to ingnore sometypes of conditional content
Rating: C
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: Does JAWS read??
- TITLE for FRAME: Speaks by default??
- LONGDESC for FRAME: not supported
- NOFRAME for FRAME: not supported
- NOSCRIPT for SCRIPT: not supported??
Rating: NI
Comments
Rating: NI
Comments
Rating: C
Comments
- Background images are not rendered when images are turned off
Rating: C
Comments
- Audio and video media types can be turned off
Rating: C
Comments
- Animations can be turned off
Rating: C
Comments
- Scripts can be turned off
Rating: P
Comments
- Doesn't allow user to manually refresh content??
Rating: P
Comments
- Doesn't allow user to configure to manually redirect??
Rating: C
Comments
- Images can be configured to not be rendered
Rating: C
Comments
- Can be changed through the user interface or user style sheet
Rating: C
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- Can be changed through the user interface or user style sheet
Rating: C
Comments
- Can be changed through the user interface or user style sheet
Rating: C
Comments
Rating: NA
No Comments
Rating: NA
No Comments
Rating: NI
Comments
- Cannot control animation rate of animated images
Rating: NA
No Comments
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
Rating: C
Comments
- JAWS configuration settings
Rating: C
Comments
- JAWS configuration settings
Rating: C
Comments
- JAWS configuration settings
Rating: C
Comments
- JAWS configuration settings
Rating: C
Comments
- Allows one user style sheet to be applied at a time
Rating: NI
Comments
- Content focus moves to new window when a script generates a new window??
Rating: NI
Comments
- New windows usually open in front of current window??
Rating: NI
Comments
- Viewports cannot be configured to be open on user request??
Rating: C
Comments
- When focus and/or selection changes they are in the viewport
Rating: P
Comments
- Only allows confirmation if the information is not secure??
- Does JAWS do anything with this??
Rating: NA
Comments
- Doesn't support fee links
Rating: NI
Comments
- Does not prompt if a view port is automatically closed
Rating: C
Comments
- Exports the DOM through a COM interface
- IE Claims full implementation of DOM 1.0
- JAWS currently implements their own parallel DOM like structure, synchronization issues
Rating: C
Comments
- Can use COM interface to modify the DOM
Rating: C
Comments
- DIRECTORIES: Active accessibility or standard ouput APIs
- TEXT source: Actibe accessibility or standard output APIs
- Others??
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
- Not sure about HTML/XML content??
Rating: C
Comments
- Appears to use standard keyboard API, works with a number of assistive technologies
Rating: C
Comments
- I assume IE dom does this, but does any body know for sure??
- JAWS supports multiple languages
Rating: VG
Comments
- IE does provde access to the style sheet information, I am not sure it complies with the W3C DOM CSS specification
Rating: C
Comments
- There are fast ways and not so fast ways in COM to access objects. When inprocess communication takes place there is timely transfer, but out of porcess is very slow.
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
- No OS conventioins for speech
Rating: C
Comments
- Using underlined characters in menus to indicate hot keys in menus
- Uses OS conventions for cut, copy and paste
Rating: VG
Comments
- HTML: CAPTION element (TABLE): Renders in graphical interpretation, can be styled using CSS
- HTML: THEAD element (TABLE): Available through DOM, can be styled using CSS?
- HTML: TBODY element (TABLE): Available through DOM, can be styled using CSS?
- HTML: TFOOT element (TABLE): Available through DOM, can be styled using CSS?
- HTML: COLGROUP element (TABLE): Available through DOM, can be styled using CSS?
- HTML: COL element (TABLE): Available through DOM, can be styled using CSS?
- HTML: SCOPE attribute (TABLE): Available through DOM
- HTML: HEADERS attribute (TABLE): Available through DOM
- HTML: AXIS attribute (TABLE): Available through DOM
- HTML: TABINDEX attribute: yes, can be used to order sequential navigation
- HTML: ACCESSKEY attribute: Supported with ALT-{key}, menu key conflict favor the menu
- HTML: ALT for IMG: yes
- HTML: LONGDESC for IMG: no, not sure about DOM
- HTML: ALT for AREA: yes
- HTML: ALT for INPUT: yes
- CSS: TEXT-INDENT: yes
- CSS: TEXT-ALIGN: yes
- CSS: WORD-SPACING: yes
- CSS: LETTER-SPACING: yes
- CSS: FONT-STRETCH: NR
- CSS: MARGIN: yes
- CSS: FLOAT: 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, content: no
Rating: VG
Comments
- HTML 4.01: VG
- CSS1: VG
- CSS2: G
- DOM 1.0: C
Rating: C
Comments
Rating: C
Comments
- Provides a user interface focus
Rating: VG
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: NR
Comments
- Can JAWS provide information about event handlers
Rating: C
Comments
- Provides sequential access to links and input form controls
- Can navigate to just links or form controls, table cells and more??
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
- Can navigate a structured view if user style sheet applied that generates he structure view
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
- Provides a focus outline box
- Highlights follow graphical rendering convenions for windows
Rating: C
Comments
- Are distint for people with normal vision
- Speaks new item with focus or selection
Rating: C
Comments
- Use system colors by default
- Underlines links by default
- Can user CSS for user styling of elements
- User can query link for information using JAWS??
Rating: P
Comments
- Can use a user style sheet to implement an outline
Rating: G
Comments
- Only uses color to indicate whether a link has been visted by default
- Can use CSS to style visited and un visited links??
- Does not support fee links
Rating: G
Comments
- Uses title bar color and focus indicator to indicate with view port has focus
- Viewport with focus also has menu hot keys highlighted when the ALT key is pressed
- Can query JAWS which which viewport has focus
Rating: C
Comments
- Provides a text message in the status bar of progress in loading a resource
- Speaks status bar automatically when bar text changes
Rating: C
Comments
- Extensive keyboard shortcut information
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: G
Comments
- Can edit JAWS macros to create new keyboard bindings, very technical
Rating: G
Comments
- Can edit JAWS macros to create new keyboard bindings, very technical
Rating: C
Comments
- Provides bindings for functions
Rating: G
Comments
- Can use style sheets for some configuration information
- In network environments, setting can be saved as part of user network profiles
- JAWS also saves settings in user 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: VG
Comments
- Uses HTML for documentation
- HTML does not use structural markup for headings
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 (JAWS and IE)
Rating: C
Comments
- JAWS usually provides a list of new capabilitied 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: 2002/04/05 21:42:18 $
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