Gitter Channel Archive 25th of April 2017

What fresh hell is THIS now? - Patrick Lauke

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.
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"
@jiatyan I have never seen anything like that and I've used Firefox as my main browser since it was first called Firebird
zakim-robot

@zakim-robot
Apr 25 19:50

[jiatyan] Thanks for confirming, @powrsurg. No wonder I couldn’t find any documentation about this behaviour.
James Nurthen

@jnurthen
Apr 25 19:51

@jiatyan were they on a mac?
zakim-robot

@zakim-robot
Apr 25 21:01

[jiatyan] yes @jnurthen
[jiatyan] is it OS specific?
James Nurthen

@jnurthen
Apr 25 21:12

there is a setting on the mac that controls this
see https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204434#fullkeyboard
zakim-robot

@zakim-robot
Apr 25 21:24

[jiatyan] By Jove! You’re right!
[jiatyan] \(^o^)/
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?
[quidkid] like the whole screen shifts so the button ends up centering
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
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