> The most accessible way of doing this sort of thing is to have something that does not scroll/animate/change by default. The user should enable the scrolling/etc by hand first. And it should obviously still work without javascript and/or flash (or, if you use flash, again have the default state of the movie as "not scrolling", and add a button to enable the scrolling ticker - and make sure you offer an alternative for non flash users...a simple link to a separate news page could be acceptable in this situation).
Hi Patrick Is there any online references on how I can achieve that? The client wants the scrolling news. I'm not efficient with flash and JS seems to be a bad choice as well. So am stuck with solving this issue. The scrolling text should scroll and pause for a while before moving to a new news. This current flash script opens the link in a new window (pop-up). I hate that and I know many others do as well. Best Wishes, Jaime ....... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Lauke Sent: Wednesday, 2 June 2004 7:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WSG] Accessible News Scroller/Ticker and Footer issue in IE > From: Mordechai Peller > What ever you do you'll still have problems with accessibility. > Scrolling text will always be a problem with epilepsy, visually > impaired, and motor impaired (clicking a moving target). Exactly. It struck me as interesting that the original poster wants to avoid JS because of "accessibility" concerns, but failed to see that the scrolling is still fundamentally inaccessible. > Perhaps, what might work is using an iframe with a refresh rate > on the loaded page of about 3 seconds. Again, you're changing things automatically, effectively doing client side redirects, which is a no-no in terms of accessibility. Imagine somebody with a screenreader getting to the iframe. The screenreader starts reading out the current content, and all of a sudden it refreshes ... annoying at best, potentially confusing in the worst case. The most accessible way of doing this sort of thing is to have something that does not scroll/animate/change by default. The user should enable the scrolling/etc by hand first. And it should obviously still work without javascript and/or flash (or, if you use flash, again have the default state of the movie as "not scrolling", and add a button to enable the scrolling ticker - and make sure you offer an alternative for non flash users...a simple link to a separate news page could be acceptable in this situation). Ages ago, I hacked away at a proof of concept accessible news scroller. It's hacky, it's ugly, it's not very generalised...but shows the idea I'm trying to get across. See http://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/details.php?id=24 All this IMNSHO, as always ;) Patrick ________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Webmaster / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.uk ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ***************************************************** ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
