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A11y Slackers Gitter Channel Archive 28th of October 2016

What fresh hell is THIS now? - Patrick Lauke
  1. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Oct 28 02:37
    [ccwilcox] Xcode also has a Touch Bar simulator https://help.apple.com/xcode/mac/8.1/#/dev7a8cb8a8c
  2. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Oct 28 05:14
    [jv] https://www.facebook.com/accessibility/posts/1226815074028882
  3. Mallory
    @StommePoes
    Oct 28 10:13
    @michiel I thought it was you, I remember someone who was on a Mac, running Windows in a VM, trying to test either NVDA or JAWS or both. A few of the keystrokes needed by the SR didn't match the Mac keyboard going to Windows.
  4. My colleague doesn't have problems yet, he just told me he was planning o using a VM since nobody at work have windows machines, and I remembered a few keys had problems. There was also a solution for it but because I don't remember who that was again, I wanted to ask.
  5. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Oct 28 10:21
    [sophieschoice_slack] I don´t like Facebook uses a picture with the word Hack at their Accessibility-group. Accessibility is NOT hacking! #rant
  6. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Oct 28 10:31
    [michiel] StommePoes: if you use VM ware you can map caps lock to another key.
  7. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Oct 28 14:21
    [beth] Does anyone know if this article is still relevant? I’m looking for info on why Tab panels don’t announce to a screen reader (TalkBack or VoiceOver) that a tab has been selected when viewing on a mobile device. I have checked this with multiple examples that work perfectly on desktop only to find that they do not work the same on a mobile device

  8. [beth] Demo from Paul J Adam of Deque
    http://pauljadam.com/demos/aria-tabpanel.html

    Example from Nicolas Hoffman
    https://a11y.nicolas-hoffmann.net/tabs/#keyboard_navigation

  9. [beth] It tells me that a tab is selected… BUT it does not announce when I make a different selection.
  10. luis garcia
    @garcialo
    Oct 28 15:13
    @jnurthen Just get the cheaper model and upgrade the hard drive yourself. That's what I did with my ThinkPad
  11. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Oct 28 15:27
    [marcysutton] On the mapping caps lock key thing...I was never able to get that to work. Tried multiple times. Ended up finding it is MUCH easier to just buy a third-party Windows keyboard with an Insert key. And it also turns out they are much more ergonomic than Apple keyboards.
  12. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Oct 28 16:30
    [michiel] Beth: the Authoring Practices Guide one works pretty well on touch devices.
  13. [michiel] https://w3c.github.io/aria-practices/#tabpanel
  14. [michiel] Link to example: https://w3c.github.io/aria-practices/examples/tabs/tabs.html
  15. [michiel] I have an update planned this weekend; will take out the delay it currently has.
  16. [michiel] Which is an option at the moment, so can easily turn it off, but I want to rewrite a part of it to make it more efficient.
  17. [michiel] If you have any problems with it I'd love feedback.
  18. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Oct 28 22:11
    [beth] @michiel I’m experiencing the same issue with yours as well. It must be a bug with mobile devices because I know you know your stuff. Like I said, they all work perfectly on a desktop, but in mobile it announces that the first tab is selected, I swipe to move to the next tab and double-tap to select it, but the screen reader is completely silent at this point. If I swipe to the next tab and back, it does announce that it is selected, it’s just not announcing the change in state. I’m using TalkBack on a Samsung Galaxy S4, running Android 5.0.1.