While I found the chat features in GMail with firefox impressively accessible, I still find using Gmail with Firefox problematic owing to other accesibility hitches I've not been able to overcome. For instance, the link to a particular mail, in standard view, does not open with simply pressing the Enter key, as it does with Internet Explorer. One has to use Jaws cursor, that too with occasional success. Similar problems appear while trying to clicking on Add CC or Edit Subject options in the Compose Mail dialogue box. Wondering whether this combination of Firevox and Wai-Aria has addressed only issues regarding chats, or they have addressed the above mentioned issues as well.
Besides, in the blog entry given in this thread, I got the impression that the chat features in Gmail can also be accessed with NVDA in Firefox, that too more easily than jaws, because with Jaws we face command conflicts and therefore have to press the command pass through kety (Insert F3) again and again. But when I Tried NVDA, an application that appears to me very promissing and yet somehow deluding, I couldnt make any good of it. Would love to get further feedback on these issues. Regards. On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Roopakshi Pathania <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > First, I am giving a possible solution regarding the problems arising with > scripts. > > For accessing the settings, there is a specific key command. I dont recall > it, but you can find out by pressing insert + h while focused on the gtalk > window. The settings dialogue box contains a set of options that you can > change by pressing tab after selecting that particular option. > > For contacts, some times, it is necessary to press the right arrow so that > you are in the search field and press the left arrow again to reach and > subsequently scroll through the contacts list. If this doesn't work, alt tab > away from the window and then return back. > Tip: in the settings, ticking the box for making only online contacts > available makes things easier. > > Now, for the alternative solution. > > Actually, its possible to chat through gmail it self even with a screen > reader. This is possible if you are using Firefox. > The reason is because speech output support in Google applications is > implemented using Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA), an > evolving standard for enhancing the accessibility of Web-2.0 applications. > Gmail and others are of course, web-2.0 based applications. WAI-ARIA is > supported only by Firefox — with future support forthcoming > in other browsers. > To know how to chat from with in gmail using a screen reader, read this > useful blog entry. > http://www.marcozehe.de/2008/08/06/aria-in-gmail-2-enhancing-the-chat-experience/ > > > --- On Wed, 8/27/08, bijoy sukumaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> From: bijoy sukumaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: [AI] Jaws script for google talk >> To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in >> Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 9:37 PM >> Hai folk, >> I am in need of a good script for Google talk. >> I have used a script called j7 gt script but dissatisfied. >> I am using jaws 8 kindly suggest me an alternative >> Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: >> http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm >> Registration is now open! >> >> To unsubscribe send a message to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject >> unsubscribe. >> >> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any >> other changes, please visit the list home page at >> >> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > > > > Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: > http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm > Registration is now open! > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject > unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Registration is now open! To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
