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http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-a11y Thanks. - Richard On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Shao Kang Tat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a webpage that has multiple dialogs. Since our goal is to make > the pages as Accessible as possible (we support the screen reader JAWS > 9), each time a dialog comes up, we must place focus on something > inside the dialog so that the screen reader knows where to continue > reading from. > > So far, my intermediate function that opens the dialog works in > FireFox to target, say a password field so that the user can start > typing right away without having to click into the password box. Also > if the user clicks on the overlay (screen blocker), then focus should > be brought back into the focus object specified: > > try{ this.focus = $(params.$focus)[0]; } // get the object that > should get focus when dialog loads > catch(e){ // if none specified, then get the anchor in the title tag > this.focus = $("." + $ > (this.modalContent).data("dialog").uiDialogTitlebar[0].className + " > a")[0]; > } > this.focus.focus(); // place focus on the focus object > $(".ui-dialog-overlay")[0].onclick=function() > { openOrders.focus.focus(); } // if user clicks on the overlay, put > focus back into the focus object > > The first few lines work for IE and FF but the last line doesn't work > for IE. Seems like I can only override a .onmouseover event for the > overlay in IE. onmousedown and onclick events don't seem to register. > > The 2nd problem: If there is no $focus argument passed in, then I > want to default the title in the title bar to be the object to focus > on. > > I know the line of code in the catch phrase isn't the best way to get > to the object, but it gets it properly. > When I alert the innerHTML or className of the focus object I get > what's expected, however, the call "this.focus.focus()" doesn't > actually place focus on the anchor tag in the titlebar even though I > have the correct object...Anyone else encounter this before? > > Thanks, > Shao >
