Orbeon Forms community mailing list - Re: Accessibility - Using Orbeon Forms for menus and keystroke navigation

Re: Accessibility - Using Orbeon Forms for menus and keystroke navigation

Posted by Alessandro Vernet on Jan 30, 2010; 3:49am
URL: https://discuss.orbeon.com/Accessibility-Using-Orbeon-Forms-for-menus-and-keystroke-navigation-tp1401410p1457239.html

Hi Hank,

We constantly do improvements to make markup Orbeon Forms generates
more accessible, for instance making sure that labels have a "for"
attribute point to the corresponding input field. If you have to
satisfy some drastic constraints, you can also provide a link to a
version of the page rendered in noscript mode, so most people won't be
impacted and those with a screen reader can have a plain-HTML page
that doesn't use any scripting. You'll also find a some more
information on:

http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/doc/home-faq#xforms-accessibility

Alex

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Hank Ratzesberger
<[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> The University of California has asked us to make our websites more
> accessible to people with motor and sight disabilities. Keystroke navigation,
> screen readers, voice recognition navigation, etc.
>
> The interactive features of XForms and Orbeon at first seem to require more
> mouse activities. In general, there is some opposition between "ajax"
> applications and accessibility because audible readers were designed to
> have the page refreshed.
>
> (On the other hand, a reader built into XForms could dramatically
> simplify paginated table access, all kinds of things. The event and
> data model lend themselves to readers that otherwise only have the
> page load event.)
>
> I'm welcome any feedback, references or experiences you have had attempting
> to make you XForms applications more accessible.
>
> Thank you,
> Hank
>
>
> Hank Ratzesberger
> NEES@UCSB
> Institute for Crustal Studies,
> University of California, Santa Barbara
> 805-893-8042
>
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