Hello everyone, I've got what I hope is a relatively simple question for
any of you who are proficient at working with the Window-eyes Hotspot
app. Can you use it to mark and then later return to a graphical element
on a webpage? Here's what I'd like to be able to do. There's a button
used to post comments on this wall portion of a website that I'm a
member of. Unfortunately, it is not possible to tab to this button, nor
is it possible to use Window-eyes' mouse hotkeys in any sort of readily
apparent manner to get at it. Fortunately, my wife is sighted, so
because of her working with me I know that it is of course in actuality
indeed possible to get the mouse pointer to the button I need to be able
to click using the mouse up, down, left and right hotkeys. However, even
when the button is reached, Window-eyes just announces something that is
for all intense and purposes practically meaningless, like the X-Y
coordinates of the button, or some other type of pointer reference
location that sounds to me like gobbledygook. The actual button itself
visually says "post comment"! Haha, so anyway, I got to thinking, well,
ok, I'll just try setting up a Window-eyes hotspot there. Well, sadly,
even when I stay on the site and simply navigate to a different place on
the page, and then try to use the hotspot, it doesn't work. Dad gum it,
thoughts? Can the Hotspot app only be used on textual elements? If so,
can any of you think of any other solutions I could try? The virtualView
app perhaps? Well, on second thought, the thing is, I'm trying to use
Window-eyes to activate a graphical button that cannot independently be
accessibly focused upon using the tab, arrow keys, or any mouse hotkeys
that I know of save the ones I've already mentioned. Thoughts? The
sites' support team are both cordial and pretty responsive, even if
clueless about assistive technology. If there's something I could ask
them to change about the HTML code itself to make this button able to be
given focus using the keyboard, do any of you know what that would be
technically referred to as?
Respectfully submitted,
Brandon Dean Miller
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