- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:37:36 -0700
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: Edward O'Connor <hober0@gmail.com>, Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Mar 22, 2010, at 4:44 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > On Mar 22, 2010, at 4:30 PM, Edward O'Connor wrote: > >>> I will be honest, I'm not including this in the proposal. Not to say >>> it couldn't be included, but I hope would follow an experiment I >>> did, >>> first, before adding a pre for ascii art in as option: >>> >>> If you don't have a screen reader installed for testing, I would >>> recommend installing NVDA on Windows, and then start the screen >>> reader >>> and Firefox. >> >> Sorry, this machine doesn't actually have a sound card, and anyway I >> don't have a screen reader installed on it. Perhaps you could >> describe >> the results of your experiment on the list? Thanks. > > Safari+VoiceOver on Mac will attempt to read the characters inside > <pre> until the user invokes the command to skip the element. > > However, the following slightly modified version will do the right > thing, at least in Safari on Mac OS X: > http://webkit.org/demos/accessible-ascii-art/butterfly.html Here is a version of the test case that uses the <figure> element to give a superior accessibility experience: http://webkit.org/demos/accessible-ascii-art/butterfly-figure.html At least on OS X, it won't read the caption text twice to screen reader users. (Yes, this is a completely correct use of role=img according to ARIA.) Regards, Maciej
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