Hi, http://www.stcsig.org/sn/internet.shtml#ajax Andrew. ________________________________ From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Léonie Watson Sent: 20 May 2006 18:14 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: AJAX and accessibility Andrew, Could you repost the URL? It sounds interesting. Thanks, Tink. ________________________________ From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson Sent: Saturday, 20 May 2006 18:09 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: AJAX and accessibility Hi, The issue with Ajax is where you have multiple items on a webpage that change, or the item that changes is not specificly where the virtual cursor is in Jaws. See the webpage I posted, it will explain the issue. Andrew. ________________________________ From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin Lloyd Sent: 20 May 2006 17:23 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] AJAX and accessibility There was some discussion earlier of AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) and it's inaccessibility with screen readers. Coincidentally, I've just been taking a look at google suggest which I believe actually uses AJAX. Basically, google suggest works like predictive text when in keying your search words in the edit field. So, for example, I just typed the letter C and the edit field was prefilled with currency convertor. I then added letter A and the field changed to cars. The predictive nature is based on your previous google searches and then the most popular search strings as used by the general population. You can arrow up and down in the edit field and you'll see similar search terms to what you've keyed. Another example, is that I've just keyed the letters d and o and it prefilled with dogs. I pressed down arrow to find the field chane to download.com No doubt there will be some implementations of AJAX that may cause some accessibility issues but the google suggest implementation of the technology looks to be very accessible with JAWS. You can find google suggest at http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en Regards. Kevin E-mail: kevin.lloyd3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx