A visitor, Ben Boyle, recently wrote that he was surprised when OSX Voiceover announced a series of three periods as “elipsis.” It is a surprisingly accurate interpretation of a simple character string.
That got Ben to wondering about how other characters, and special encodings, are announced. Ben put together a selection of special characters and the […]
This test builds upon Simple AJAX Test #1 by extending it with a “hacK” to better support screen readers. It uses Gez Lemon and Steve Faulkner’s updateBuffer technique as published in their article “Improving AJAX applications for JAWS users.” Is it only for JAWS, or will it make a difference for others too?
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Test an incredibly simple AJAX application with your screen reader or assistive technology.
Now we turn to testing screen readers with more modern hiding techniques.
Visibility Tests
This series of tests seeks to understand how screen readers and other assistive technology react to different methods of hiding information from visual display. The following table offers the results from Quizzes 5.2.1 through 5.2.12, test cases 1 through 12.
The desired result is y/n, meaning a screen reader announces the material, but it is […]