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A11y Slackers Gitter Channel Archive 26th of September 2016

What fresh hell is THIS now? - Patrick Lauke
  1. Amanda Rush
    @amandarush
    Sep 26 09:28
    Morning slackers.
  2. jkva @jkva tests
  3. Job van Achterberg
    @jkva
    Sep 26 10:31
    Is this thing on?
  4. jkva @jkva tests some more
  5. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Sep 26 11:13
    [marcysutton] Hello from London!
  6. [michiel] Hello from behind the couch!
  7. Job van Achterberg
    @jkva
    Sep 26 11:15
    Hello from Sliedrecht @marcysutton!
  8. @michiel are you looking for spare change?
  9. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Sep 26 11:18
    [michiel] Nah, this code is just too scary to look at (worried emoji)
  10. Job van Achterberg
    @jkva
    Sep 26 11:22
    @michiel need a second pair of eyes?
  11. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Sep 26 11:24
    [michiel] Sorry, it’s classified.
  12. [michiel] goes back to work
  13. Job van Achterberg
    @jkva
    Sep 26 11:24
    @michiel no prob, understand - good luck!
  14. Mallory
    @StommePoes
    Sep 26 14:00
    Arrrg
  15. I have a terrible situation: things that SHOULD be buttons but aren't because the spacebar has been hijacked to do something else, so I have a with role="button", aria-label="some text" and clicking with Enter should do an action
  16. this does not work at all in my JAWS 16 on IE, and I'm assuming it doesn't work because of the weirdo construction above
  17. actually, no, it's probably not me, nevermind. The page seems to think IE is on a touch device and might be listening for taps
  18. Mallory
    @StommePoes
    Sep 26 14:08
    However, only my version has JAWS repeating the name of the first link it focussed on for every new tabbable, no matter where I start. I only get the correct names if I arrow around in read mode
  19. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Sep 26 17:25
    [jiatyan] What is the effect of zoom when it comes to modal dialogues boxes? I'm looking at a design where there user clicks on a small search button at the top right, and a modal takes over the entire page with a large search box in the middle of the page. So the user is required to move their focus from the top right to the centre of the page. Does the zoom focus move accordingly?
  20. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Sep 26 21:20
    [marcysutton] What do you mean by "zoom focus"? Focus should be sent into the modal dialog when it opens so the user is in the right place, regardless of zoom
  21. [cordelia] I think the question is: If user is zoomed in on one part of page, and focus moves to somewhere else on the page, does viewport pan to the focused element?
  22. [conley] I think it would, especially if you’re forcing focus
  23. [conley] oh, and hello everyone, I just joined
  24. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Sep 26 21:26
    [cordelia] Hello, @conley!
  25. [cordelia] I could be wrong, but I think it’s usually a setting you can toggle. On OS X, for instance, Zoom by default does not follow keyboard focus, but you can toggle that behavior in OS X Accessibility settings.
  26. [cordelia] Not sure how other Zoom tools do it, though
  27. Iñaki Aranzadi
    @inaki
    Sep 26 21:34
    Hi there
  28. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Sep 26 21:52
    [jiatyan] Thanks @cordelia. That's a relief. :)
  29. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Sep 26 22:10

    [karlgroves] >I think the question is: If user is zoomed in on one part of page, and focus moves to somewhere else on the page, does viewport pan to the focused element?

    @cordelia it should

  30. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Sep 26 23:01
    [caesar] @stommepoes I've had that problem before with JAWS, where it just reads the first link for every tabbable. I think it's a JAWS bug. Usually goes away if I restart IE and JAWS both. But if you're testing a site that triggers it every time it would be interesting to see what the cause is.
  31. [caesar] I always thought it was just a buffering error if I start JAWS after the browser.
  32. [caesar] In the meantime, I became acquainted with flexbox for the first time yesterday sigh
  33. [caesar] Thank goodness for @leoniwatson's writeup on tink.uk