Hi all, My message is below Apple's reply, but the gist is that I want vo to say something like "multi-line edit text" when encountering a textarea element. Basically, I want to know if pressing enter in a form will submit the form or insert a new line. I've never heard vo make this distinction, but Apple says it does if the site is coded right? I'm a bit confused, as my (out of date) knowledge of html tells me that the textarea element is multi-line while the input element with type set to text is single-line. So, what extra coding is required? Am I going crazy and vo really does say this? Any thoughts?
Begin forwarded message: > From: accessibil...@apple.com > Subject: Re: have Voiceover distinguish between textareas and single-line > inputs in html areas > Date: October 30, 2012 5:47:02 PM EDT > To: mehg...@gmail.com > Delivered-To: mehg...@gmail.com > Received: by 10.58.29.71 with SMTP id i7csp418918veh; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 > 14:47:04 -0700 (PDT) > Received: by 10.68.217.130 with SMTP id oy2mr105658749pbc.144.1351633624005; > Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:47:04 -0700 (PDT) > Received: from bz.apple.com (dabinett.apple.com. [17.151.62.52]) by > mx.google.com with ESMTPS id yk3si2756599pbc.159.2012.10.30.14.47.03 > (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:47:04 -0700 (PDT) > Received: from lenham.corp.apple.com ([17.34.184.160]) by bz.apple.com > (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-23.01(7.0.4.23.0) 64bit (built > Aug 10 2011)) with ESMTP id <0mcq005dh76e7...@bz.apple.com> for > mehg...@gmail.com; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:47:02 -0700 (PDT) > Return-Path: <so...@apple.com> > Received-Spf: pass (google.com: domain of so...@apple.com designates > 17.151.62.52 as permitted sender) client-ip=17.151.62.52; > Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of > so...@apple.com designates 17.151.62.52 as permitted sender) > smtp.mail=so...@apple.com > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT > Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII > Date-Warning: Date header was inserted by bz.apple.com > Message-Id: > <653557344.4902358.1351633622229.javamail.snrma...@lenham.corp.apple.com> > > Please include the line below in follow-up emails for this request. > > Follow-up: 236112754 > > Hi, > > Thank you for your email. Apple relies on each application and web site > developer to properly implement the necessary components into their > applications that allow VoiceOver to work correctly. The functionality you > have requested is already available in VoiceOver if the site or application > you are using provides the appropriate alt information to VoiceOver. We > recommend that you contact the app or web site developer directly to provide > them feedback on the features you are finding do not work. > > Apple Accessibility > > Hello, > One thing Voiceover does not do on OSX (or, to my knowledge, iOS) is > distinguish input types. That is, a single-line input field (an input element > whose type is "text", 'email", or some other variant) is spoken as "edit > text". Likewise, a multi-line field, a textarea element in html, is spoken as > 'edit text". Please add more description to one or the other so the two can > be differentiated. For instance, have textareas be specified as "multi-line > text input" so that users know that pressing enter will insert a new line > instead of submitting a form. I realize it is a small change, but it is a > huge help to screen reader users to know what that all-important enter key > will actually do. Thanks for your time. > > > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) > mehg...@gmail.com > > > > Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) mehg...@gmail.com -- 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.
