[Athen] site works with NVDA/Chrome, JAWS/IE, but not NVDA/Firefox

[Howard Kramer]

Thanks Peter.

-Howard

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 7:49 PM, Bossley, Peter A. <bossley.5 at osu.edu> wrote:


> It is worth noting that Firefox + NVDA is our default testing combination

> because it brings you closest to modern web standards + modern screen

> reader without some of the guessing and extra excuse making that the

> commercial offerings sometimes insert into the process.

>

> If the site doesn’t work in FF + NVDA there are bound to be other issues.

>

> Without seeing the code it will be hard to guess what the issues are but

> I’ll tell you that service now has some serious challenges in this arena,

> and any views that are generated with their frameworks are probably going

> to be troublesome on one level or another for screen reader reliant users.

>

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> *From:* athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] *On

> Behalf Of *Howard Kramer

> *Sent:* Thursday, February 2, 2017 5:02 PM

> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network <

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> *Subject:* [Athen] site works with NVDA/Chrome, JAWS/IE, but not

> NVDA/Firefox

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>

> Just wanted to get other folks' opinion on this. I've been helping to

> evaluate a prototype application here on our campus - time/payroll type

> tool. Surprisingly I've found the the interface is pretty accessible with

> NVDA/Chrome and JAWS/Firefox but not accessible with NVDA/Firefox. The

> developer said he tested his design with ChromeVox so that helps explain

> the accessibility with Chrome.

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>

> Two questions: at what point do you say an application or website is

> screenreader accessible - does it have to work with every AT/browser combo

> or if it seems to work with most, is that okay. Second, any ideas on why

> the NVDA/FF environment does not work? BTW - this application was developed

> under the ServiceNow platform.

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> Thanks,

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> Howard

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