Tag: test cases

An ARIA alert Test Case

I put together a few examples of ARIA alerts and tested them with JAWS and NVDA in Firefox 3.6, Internet Explorer 7 and 8. The interesting bit is how alerts can be improved for JAWS 10 in Internet Explorer by adding an aria-live attribute value of “assertive”. Continue reading

NVDA and JAWS with Links to Previously Hidden Anchors

Each of the anchors (both the a elements and heading anchors) below have an id and tabindex=”-1″. Target anchors 3 and 6 are hidden with display:none until they are targetted with the link at which point they are made visible and focus is set to them. 1. Link to visible simple anchor 2. Link programmatically setting focus to visible simple… Continue reading

tabindex, Keyboard Focus and Some ARIA in Screen Readers

These test cases are in no way comprehensive or robust: They should really be supplemented with examples using a greater variety of HTML5 elements and ARIA roles, but I just can’t be bothered at this point. Nonetheless, they reveal some interesting, if not slightly worrying, behaviour on the part of at least two screen readers. At least two things are… Continue reading

ARIA alertdialog tests

the alertdialog examples below are not modal, nor do they leave the visual layout undisturbed, but this is not what is being tested, which is how NVDA and some other screen readers handle them NVDA tests performed with Firefox 3.6 JAWS tests performed with Internet Explorer 8 Update: A day or so after posting these test cases, NVDA fixed things… Continue reading