Tim It helps indeed. Thanks Pete
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Timothy Powell < timothy.pow...@pbs-consulting.com> wrote: > ** > > We played with this a while back. One of the solutions we played with, we > called a Jump Menu, and was as follows:**** > > ** ** > > Make the first field in your form a drop down menu field that can be > called with the arrow keys. It’s important that it be the first field, > because the keyboard shortcut for Home (Shift-Ctrl-Home) will always take > the user back to this field.**** > > Each value in the drop-down menu corresponds with a section on your form. > So if the first value in the menu was “Assignment”, then there would be an > “Assignment” section on the form.**** > > Head that section up with a character field displayed as text.**** > > When the section is picked from the drop down, set focus to the section > heading.**** > > The fact that you created the heading as a character field displayed as > text will allow a typical support screen reader like JAWS to “read” the > heading back to the user for verification (screen readers have difficulty > reading trim text).**** > > ** ** > > That was the base design. We even went a few steps further and added > required fields within sections as a menu choice and we provided the > capability for people to add custom jump points to the Jump Menu.**** > > ** ** > > And not really tied to skip navigation, but it’s VERY important for 508 to > have your tabbing order be very clean and concise.**** > > ** ** > > HTH,**** > > Tim**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: > arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] *On Behalf Of *Peter Joran > *Sent:* Monday, August 06, 2012 12:07 PM > *To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > *Subject:* Skip Navigation Question**** > > ** ** > > ** All > Our customer wants to build in skip navigation into customer facing forms > to meet 508 compliance requirements. I've looked on-line and in > documentation but I'm finding references on how to do this in Remedy. If > anyone has a thought or idea on how to build in skip navigation I would be > grateful. > > Many thanks > Pete > ARS\ITSM 7604 01 > _attend WWRUG12 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ **** > _attend WWRUG12 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
