Re: [WSG] Accessible modal windows / lightboxes

2011-01-20 Thread tee
On Jan 20, 2011, at 4:44 AM, Steve Green wrote: > Yes, here's one we worked on - > http://htmltools.moneymadeclear.org.uk/mortgage-calculator/index.aspx > Have you tested it on Firefox? It doesn't seem to allow keyboard support for the modal window. Also, a usability glitch IMHO, the clos

Re: [WSG] Accessible modal windows / lightboxes

2011-01-20 Thread tee
jQuery Fancybox has keyboard control using mousewheel plugin. No keyboard support for close window - this could be implemented with ARIA I guess. > > > I haven't been able to find any that will trigger a screen reader to actually > read the content within > Most of the lightbox-ish gallery us

Re: [WSG] Accessible modal windows / lightboxes

2011-01-20 Thread Ted Drake
Here are a couple posts on using ARIA with YUI. This information could also go towards jquery. * http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2008/07/30/tabview-aria/ * http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2008/10/02/yui-aria/ http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2009/08/03/aria-made-easier-with-yui-3/ * http://yuiblog.

RE: [WSG] Accessible modal windows / lightboxes

2011-01-20 Thread Steve Green
Yes, here's one we worked on - http://htmltools.moneymadeclear.org.uk/mortgage-calculator/index.aspx The problem with most lightboxes is that the position of the focus is not controlled correctly. Typically the user has to tab through all the page content to get to the lightbox content because it

[WSG] Accessible modal windows / lightboxes

2011-01-20 Thread James Grant
Hi WSG'ers, Does anybody have any experience with creating accessible modal windows, aka lightboxes? While I have seen some great lightbox experiments that do allow keyboard control, I haven't been able to find any that will trigger a screen reader to actually read the content within. My pr