Hi, Another thought: You say that you are navigating by "text block" which may report clickable if anything in the block indeed has the clickable property. You may want to navigate in smaller chunks so as to find out which word/words have the clickable property.
Happy Jack Reed Day, cdh On Sep 7, 2009, at 7:24 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote: > > Hi, > > Clickable is a valid html element that turns an item into something > like a link with a few minor different properties. You should be able > to click the mouse cursor on one of these items and and some action > should occur. If the site you cite has items labeled clickable that > are not it is because their html and/or JavaScript is broken. > Whatever content pops up or is otherwise presented to you when you > click on such an object is up to the authors of the page and is not a > function of the clickable property, Safari or pretty much anything > else you use. > > For more on this, you can look at the web content guidelines or, more > to the point for your issue, the web content accessibility guidelines > and the web user agent guidelines. The WCAG tells web authors how to > make the clickable item accessible and the UAG tells screen reader and > other access technology authors how it should be presented to the > user. > > All of these guidelines plus lots more great stuff can be found at: > www.w3c.org/wai > . The WAI stands for web accessibility initiative. > > Happy Eugene Debbs Day, > cdh > On Sep 7, 2009, at 12:33 AM, Justin Harford wrote: > >> >> Hello >> On Sep 6, 2009, at 2:28 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: >> >>> Those things that VO has >>> reported as being clickable have in fact been clickable >> >> OK very well. So in this article >> >> http://www.examiner.com/x-6741-SF-Family-Examiner~y2009m9d6-Boy-11-stabbed-on-SF-bus-Friday-nearly-dies >> >> pretty much every single item of text in the article itself is >> clickable. I did vo space on one of the blocks of text, and it did >> nothing. I then clicked on it with the mouse and it gave me a spam >> window. When I say text items, I mean the text of the article. So >> again, you insist that this is all clickable, but then how is it >> clickable when I click on it and it either does nothing, or gives >> me a >> pop-up? >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
