revealing test feedback on question page
August 18, 2006 12:00 AM
CDC_Joe wrote:
My experience with screen readers is that they do not read text on the screen that suddenly "appears". For example if you have a button that onclick you show a text field, it will not read that because it was not there when the screen initally came up.Good point, and it answers a concern I hadn't thought of. This is probably moot now, but I want to clarify my original question: Will the screen reader read the hidden feedback before the user clicks? In other words, could the user "cheat" by just letting the screen reader read all the hidden text?
CDC_Joe wrote:
Now, the solution (In my opinion) is you can either put in a refresh command to completely refresh the screen so the new text can be read, or better yet, (and what I'm doing) have either a windows alert box, or a new page in a window appear. These new windows that popup, (remember- different from show/hide) immediately get read but the screen reader. Just to clarify... are you referring to "Windows" alert boxes with a capital "W" (e.g., the unattractive Microsoft IE popups with the yellow exclamation point)? Or are you using Lectora to create custom popups whose appearance can be controlled?
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