[program-java] Re: AJAXaccessibility

  • From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <program-java@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:07:17 +0300

The AJAX code is a javascript code (which by the way, has nothing to do with 
Java), and that code gets the values from the form and sends them directly to 
the server in a request made by Javascript, so without refreshing the page.

After the values are sent, the server might answer with something that's 
printed somewhere on the page, and you may need to search much in order to find 
that answer if the page is not very accessible, or if the screen reader doesn't 
support that kind of pages very well.

After sending the form's content, do a JawsKey+Escape to refresh the JAWS 
buffer, and after that, go ahead and search on the page for that newly appeared 
text.

If you have some sighted help, ask them to tell you what text appears, and also 
try searching for it with Control+F.



Octavian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stanzel, Susan - Kansas City, MO" <susan.stanzel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <program-java@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 10:42 PM
Subject: [program-java] Re: AJAXaccessibility


The folks at my desk said what I had entered got displayed on the page but JAWS 
didn't say anything after I hit the submit button.

Susie

From: program-java-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:program-java-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Homme, James
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 2:21 PM
To: program-java@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [program-java] Re: AJAXaccessibility

Hi Suzie,
When you say that it didn't get displayed, are you saying that you were reading 
along and didn't run into the new text, or that JAWS did not speak the new 
information automatically. Your answer might matter.

Thanks.

Jim

Jim Homme,
Usability Services,
Phone: 412-544-1810. Skype: jim.homme. NonVisualDevelopment.org: Blind people 
can drive computers<http://www.nonvisualdevelopment.org/>. Demonstration GUI 
Programs: You can program GUI's while blind.<http://www.fruitbasketdemos.org/>

From: program-java-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:program-java-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stanzel, Susan - Kansas 
City, MO
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 12:50 PM
To: program-java@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [program-java] AJAXaccessibility

Hi Listers,

I am sending this to both the programming list and the java list. I have just 
looked at a web site written in AJAX. One of the problems I saw was that when 
it displayed something on the page it did not get spoken by JAWS. I don't know 
anything about AJAX, but the man showing me the application said it does not 
refresh the page. I don't see how it can ever work. Does anyone have any 
thoughts to share on this subject?

Susie Stanzel
programmer: United States Department of Agriculture

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