Hi Max,
I just took a look at the NPR homepage. It appears that they have rolled out a version of the website that implements a responsive design. If you haven't heard of this term before, it refers to a website gracefully changing its appearance depending upon the type of device it is being viewed on without having to change the actual HTML structure on the page. Cascading style sheet media queries and JavaScript do all of the work while making the process completely transparent to the user. For example, when viewed on a desktop browser, you will see a conventional navigation bar spanning across the width of the page. If viewed on a smartphone browser, all of the navigation will be replaced with a single menu icon in the top left corner that can be activated to expose a touch friendly navigation system. Back to your question, the NPR Newscast element on the homepage is indeed very difficult to interact even more so than before. I have sent this webpage example to our developers for us to investigate. In the meantime, I found that if you visit the News section of the NPR website (http://www.npr.org/sections/news/) it still uses the old design. So, if you navigate to this page, you should be able to activate the Newscast just as you did previously. I hope you find this information helpful. Best Regards, Marc Subject: NPR Newscast Again From: "Max G. Swanson" <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 15:47:06 -0500 Reply-To: [email protected] NPR has made more changes. The onclick to the newscast is at the bottom, and I can't get to it with W.E. NVDA registers it as a "Clickable" and, with a little practice, you can hit Enter on it. W.E. does not call it clickable or on-click though it indicates a 2nd-level heading that NVDA does not. Insert-plus and leftclick "routes pointer to element", but it's not the right element. As Dr. Bill Gary said, at least more or less said: "For blind people to be frozen out of radio would be the last laugh>" Can anybody stop my laughter? -- "Americans must know the basic architecture of programs designed to protect them."(Senator Franken.) Regards, Max. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
