[Mailman-Developers] Turning off dynamic JavaScript

[David Andrews]

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>There is MSAA, Microsoft Active Accessibility, and a replacement with Vista, I believe, but don't remember what it is called.  Don't know if they can be used by style sheets, but inquiry to enable at Microsoft.com might be in order.
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>Dave
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>At 12:45 PM 7/4/2006, you wrote:
>>Gentlebeings,
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>>I have read a depressing and recent article suggesting that DOM 
>>manipulations are invisible to most screen readers [1]. There are some 
>>workarounds suggested in [2], but for the most part it looks like 
>>dangerous territory.
>>
>>What's worse, there seems to be no way to detect screen readers 
>>reliably. I am determined to provide some JavaScript in the 'standard' 
>>interface, as it will make for enhanced ease-of-use for those sighted 
>>people using a modern browser.
>>
>>(I think it would be good for screen readers, too, if there was just 
>>some way for me to control/hint the "focus" of the screen reader, but at 
>>the moment there doesn't seem to be. Screen readers don't even seem to 
>>support an aural/speech stylesheet, much less provide some JavaScript 
>>object that lets me know I'm in one.)
>>
>>I found a page (that is eluding me at the moment) detailing a method for 
>>showing content to screen readers yet hiding it from 'regular' clients. 
>>I was thinking of adding a "Screen Reader Support On" link to the top of 
>>all pages that would only show to screen readers; does this seem like a 
>>good approach?
>>
>>Note that this would be in *addition* to the ability to get a JS-free 
>>version of the interface by using a different URL prefix for any user 
>>agent that doesn't want the JS action.
>>
>>~ethan