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A11y Slackers Gitter Channel Archive 25th of April 2017

What fresh hell is THIS now? - Patrick Lauke
  1. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Apr 25 19:19
    [jiatyan] For the regular Firefox users, is there a specific setting to turn TAB-ing to page links on and off? I just witnessed someone using TAB and all FF did was to loop the focus in the address and search text boxes.
  2. powrsurg
    @powrsurg
    Apr 25 19:29
    Is it advisable to have a hidden div with role="alert" that will be read by screen readers so that they're presented with some info? We're testing out some functionality that works with a sighted keyboard user when they click a "save" button. I feel it would be good for it to say to them "[foo] saved"
  3. @jiatyan I have never seen anything like that and I've used Firefox as my main browser since it was first called Firebird
  4. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Apr 25 19:50
    [jiatyan] Thanks for confirming, @powrsurg. No wonder I couldn’t find any documentation about this behaviour.
  5. James Nurthen
    @jnurthen
    Apr 25 19:51
    @jiatyan were they on a mac?
  6. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Apr 25 21:01
    [jiatyan] yes @jnurthen
  7. [jiatyan] is it OS specific?
  8. James Nurthen
    @jnurthen
    Apr 25 21:12
    there is a setting on the mac that controls this
  9. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Apr 25 21:24
    [jiatyan] By Jove! You’re right!
  10. [jiatyan] \(^o^)/
  11. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Apr 25 21:45
    [quidkid] sometimes when i tab to a button, it stretches the screen! anyone have any idea how to prevent that from happening?
  12. [quidkid] like the whole screen shifts so the button ends up centering
  13. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Apr 25 22:01
    [quidkid] i’m pretty sure it deals with the fact that the button is in a div that stretches past the width of the page but that’s supposed to be hidden
  14. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Apr 25 23:01
    [quidkid] never mind, got it fixed. had a crazy left margin. used position relative and absolute instead