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A11y Slackers Gitter Channel Archive 15th of July 2017

What fresh hell is THIS now? - Patrick Lauke
  1. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jul 15 01:44
    [higley] @sandecorbett the link you posted looks like it’s just absolutely positioning divs over an image. I’d suggest following an accessible tooltip pattern like here: http://ianmcburnie.github.io/mindpatterns/disclosure/tooltip/index.html
  2. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jul 15 10:45
    [dickson] I have a <textarea> that somehow isn't being exposed to screen readers reliably, and even when I get inside the edit box, arrowing around with NVDA doesn't announce anything. Suggestions on how to troubleshoot? Trying to improve accessibility of Jupytar notebooks.
  3. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jul 15 13:57
    [michiel] Can you provide a code snippet @dickson?
  4. [michiel] Perhaps an aria-hidden higher up the DOM?
  5. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jul 15 15:58
    [dickson] Couldn't find any aria-hidden
  6. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jul 15 16:11
    [dickson] Actually while creating this codepen to paste a dump of the relevant node, I realized NVDA also doesn't read when I arrow inside this edit box. Has anyone experienced this problem on codepen before? https://codepen.io/anon/pen/eRXwVZ
  7. [dickson] Just tested codepen with jaws, same problem. Might be related to the original problem with Jupyter I was trying to fi
  8. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jul 15 16:35
    [jamesn] Ah codemirror.