Re: explaining to someone how to make their website accessible
- From: "Kelly Ford" <kelly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:16:58 -0700
Troy,
If you expand the selection list first, do you get kicked out of forms mode?
By expand I mean use alt+down arrow after you turn on forms mode? I just
tried this and didn't get kicked out.
the problem here is that some selection lists use a technique that submits
the form on a change. This means that when the user changes the selection
in the form, that value is submitted. The solution here is not to do this
and require the user to hit an actual submit/go button of some form. That
said, typically the alt+down arrow expand box will work because then the
selection control will let you arrow up and down and not submit the change
until you tab away.
Kelly
----- Original Message -----
From: "Troy Burnham" <homerun@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "jfw" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 2:04 PM
Subject: explaining to someone how to make their website accessible
Hi All,
I sent a message the other day about some list boxes on a website where
every time that I turned forms mode on and tried to arrow through the list
box I'd get kicked out of forms mode immediately. A couple of others
confirmed that the same thing happened to them and suggested that I
contact
the webmaster of the site, but my question is how do I explain what the
problem is in a way that a sighted person will understand, and what
suggestions do I make to fix the problem?
Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. The web site is
http://www.southeasttexas.com/classifieds/ and they must have changed
something fairly recently because at one time I didn't have this problem.
Troy
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