[access-uk] Re: Accessible Podcast Downloader
- From: "Alasdair King" <alasdairking@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 22:46:39 +0000
Oh no, my apologies, I didn't mean to come off as taking offence. All
criticism and comments are always welcome. I was just being terse
because it was late!
Podcast Downloader does in fact need some more work - I'm not sure
people realise how the checkboxes interact with what is downloaded -
so all comments are welcome.
Best wishes,
Alasdair
On Nov 6, 2007 5:52 PM, Douglas Harrison <harrison1d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sorry Alasdair if I appeared to be criticising - that was not intended. I
> quite
> understand the difficulty in making a product compatible with a range of
> screen readers. I have just tried Window-eyes, NVDA and Thunder and
> they all behave slightly differently in this particular context from Hal, my
> usual screen reader.
>
> I don't think that there is any problem as Accessible Podcast Downloader
> stands- just takes a minute or two to realise what is happening. I think
> that I
> had half expected, without any reason, that it would act in the same way as
> the Accessible Podcatcher where cursoring down selects an item.
>
> Douglas
>
>
>
>
> On 5 Nov 2007 at 23:11, Alasdair King wrote:
>
> > Right: I put the word "selected" or "unselected" after each item
> > because Narrator and JAWS don't properly announce the state of the
> > item. Clearly this causes problems for some other screenreaders. I'm
> > going to go with how it works now, because that supports (1) Narrator
> > and (2) JAWS but I'll test it out again to see if the logic works.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Alasdair
> >
> > On Oct 31, 2007 8:07 AM, Douglas Harrison <harrison1d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Alasdair and Ari,
> > >
> > > Screen readers seem to give two status announcements as you cursor
> > > down the list and this may cause confusion. Window-eyes says "Not
> > > Selected" or "Unselected" twice as the focus moves to each item, but Hal
> > > says "Unselected" followed by "Selected" presumably because the line in
> > > question has focus.
> > > Initially with the latter I thought that the particular feed was Selected
> > > simply
> > > by moving to it, but in fact I have to press spacebarbefore I can download
> > > anything.
> > >
> > > hope that helps,
> > >
> > > douglas
> >
>
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>
> Douglas Harrison
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