Comments on: CSS for “rollovers” aids screenreader accessibility

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By: Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 20:47:00 +0000

Sounds like a job for a pressure group interested in working with screenreader vendors to help them support Standards. If only I knew of such an organisation ….

By: Jules

Jules — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:22:01 +0000

Bruce, it is my understanding that JAWS “depends” on the inline event handlers to be able to announce their presence. Therefore, using unobtrusive DOM scripting and event listeners are beyond the capabilities of JAWS. This of course has both pros and cons: useful content provided would be missed and useless content would be avoided.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:41:00 +0000

It’s well beyond my JavaScript knowledge to even understand your question, Lachlan.

The JavaScript links I was testing are coded

href="anout us.htm">Who we are

If you don’t have access to JAWS 6.1 and want me to test out the questions you have, please email the code to me; I’ll test it over the weekend and post the results here.

Derek Featherstone notes,

[JAWS] seems like it was designed to deal with things like JavaScripted menus and the like from Dreamweaver. The problem that I found is that if you attach your JavaScript dynamically, JAWS doesn’t seem to recognize that there is anything there because “onmouseover” isn’t declared inline.

Is that what you were asking?

(My next project is to learn unobtrusive DOMscripting…

By: Lachlan Hunt

Lachlan Hunt — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:00:15 +0000

Is there a difference between when the event handlers are dynamically attached from the script and when they’re attached with the onevent attributes? If they’re attached dynamically (i.e. without using the attributes in the markup), does Jaws still say “onmouseover“?