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A11y Slackers Gitter Channel Archive 27th of February 2017

What fresh hell is THIS now? - Patrick Lauke
  1. Sean Elliott
    @seanus1138
    Feb 27 06:03

    Hey guys, so I've been building my own keyboard accessible menu plugin and i have kind of hit a road block but only for JAWS.

    When i test the keyboard functionality (left and right for example) on the main nav items when NOT using JAWS the focus goes to the previous or next menu items (depending on the key pressed) - awesome great success.
    But when i test this is in JAWS 17 the keyboard events dont fire at all (actually enter and space do), JAWS just reads out the letters of the word on each keypress of left or right.

    Looking at this https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.1/examples/menubar/menubar-1/menubar-1.html using JAWS i know its possible to make the focus move to the previous and next items on left and right keypress. SO i was curious, how can i do the same thing. Obviously i could use the scripts at the W3's demo page BUT i find the best way to learn and improve your own abilities is to build your own stuff.

    I feel i am missing something very simple it seems like JAWS is preventing my events from running or its events are taking over mine... im not sure anymore someone here surely knows.

    My Example: https://jsfiddle.net/seanus/zk3phz3o/embedded/result/

  2. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Feb 27 14:10
    [michiel] seanus1138: replace aria-role with role. aria-role doesn’t exist :)
  3. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Feb 27 20:55
    [jessebeach] Would anyone be opposed to renaming the csun2016 group to just csun?
  4. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Feb 27 21:06
    [mhlut] Article preview list: which HTML to use
  5. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Feb 27 21:46
    [marcysutton] jessebeach: there's a csunatc17 channel but we could totally merge them at some point
  6. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Feb 27 22:20
    [jessebeach] @mhlut , the ordered list is fine for now
  7. [jessebeach] ARIA 1.1 introduces a feed role: https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#feed
  8. [jessebeach] We're preparing to support this role at FB. It's not a right-now solution; it is a near-term solution
  9. James Nurthen
    @jnurthen
    Feb 27 22:25
    @jessebeach but having a feed containing articles shouldn't do any harm as far as I see it (it just has no benefits)
  10. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Feb 27 22:27
    [jessebeach] @jamesn Agree. The ordered list gives you ordinality expression, but without great posinset and setsize support at the moment, it's not even that much extra.
  11. [jessebeach] Kudos to @jamesn for his work on the ARIA WG getting Feed into the spec \o/ btw :)
  12. James Nurthen
    @jnurthen
    Feb 27 22:28
    I'm just finishing up my aria 1.1 presetnation for CSUN and was looking for demos of the new features. Couldn't find any improvements for feed :(
  13. but i was pleasantly suprised about implementations for some of the others
  14. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Feb 27 23:48
    [winston] has anyone encountered an issue for where firefox android does not seem to fire click/touchend events when using talkback?
  15. [winston] i can trigger the events via console and event listener fires
  16. [winston] but double tapping the element does not trigger it