Hard packed fun: sIFR updated
Posted by Jesse Rodgers on December 21, 2004 at 03:58 PM
I have been doing a little testing of the sIFR with Jaws to see if I could catch a bug that has been reported. The way it was reported is that Jaws says the headline twice – reading the text, then reading the flash replacement – but from what I read of the report it was reading the font type as well. Really annoying when you think about it.
So off I go to the ATC downstairs in the ODP in NH (Acronyms rule).. and guess what, it reads it twice but in different context and it does it on non-sIFR pages too. “That is silly” you say? Yup it is.
I need to look into in some more because 20 min on Jaws really isn’t ‘extensive’ testing now is it? Shall update this post when I do. UPDATE: I created two pages, one sIFR one not but identically simple in the content otherwise. No repeating of headers even with links. That was on win98, IE 6, and JAWS 5.0 in demo mode. For my next trick I am going to make a little more complex page and see… if I get the time.
The real reason for this post was a couple accessibility related links:
- Fangs: The Firefox Screen Reader Emulater Extension – wow, Firefox is becoming an essential tool for web developers.
- Rounded corners fun or you could get them made for you
- 3-column CSS holygrail? – perhaps.
..and why ‘hard packed?’ Well apparently you can’t call ice on a ski hill ice.. you have to call it ‘hard packed.’ Since it’s icey.. hrm.. hard packed around campus today I thought it was appropriate.