Re: Scrolling Java Script and Inaccessible Web Sites
- From: "Gary King" <w4wkz@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 08:49:52 -0500
Neither JAWS nor Window-Eyes recognizes these items as links. I was able to
activate the Admissions item with the JAWS cursor, but I couldn't do
anything with the rest of them.
Gary King
mailto:w4wkz@xxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jana Schroeder" <jlschroeder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 9:41 PM
Subject: Scrolling Java Script and Inaccessible Web Sites
> Hello,
> I need some help regarding how to figure out why a web site is
inaccessible
> and how to advise that it be fixed.
> I recently took a new job at Earlham College. The college's web site has
a
> left side list which doesn't show up at all when I bring the page up in
JFW.
> I have been told that this list is in Java Script and that the items in
the
> list change when you move the mouse over a particular item on the list.
> When
> I bring the site up in JFW, it doesn't even indicate that this part of the
> page exists though I believe that if someone runs the mouse over that part
> of
> the page, JAWS will then say those items.
> I have spoken with the web page designers here who know very little about
> access technology but claim that they have followed accessible design
> principles
> and don't seem to know why the site does not work. The only possible
> alternative they have come up with is a text only site which they are very
> unlikely
> to implement and which I believe should not be necessary. However, I know
> nothing about web design and have no ideas about what is wrong or to whom
i
> might refer them to analyze the problem and suggest an accessible
> alternative to the current design.
> The web site is
> www.earlham.edu
> If you have suggestions, feel free to contact me off list at
> jlschroeder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Thanks,
> Jana Schroeder
>
>
>
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