I've checked out the html source for the new layout of edit links, and found that the
link title is informative: "edit section: foo"
or name of transcluding template. However, JAWS never reads the link title unless it's
asked to; it will *always* read the screen
text of a link (in this case always "edit") by default. All I really want is for
the section editing link not to be part of a
heading so JAWS can read the actual heading title of the page. As for display:none,
I'd like it nuked; and speak:none isn't
recognised by all versions of JAWS so shouldn't be used either.
Graham
-----Original Message-----
From: wikitech-l-bounces(a)wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of Graham Pearce
Sent: Sunday, 22 October 2006 1:28 PM
To: wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikitech-l] major accessibility problem recently introduced
toMediaWiki
I'm user:Graham87 on the english wikipedia. I use a screen reader called JAWS from
Freedom Scientific at:
www.freedomscientific.com
It is the most popular Windows screen reader at the moment.
My problem is that it appears that the edit link has become part of the title of each
section created with wiki markup. This problem
is compounded when using quick navigation keys to navigate between sections; in this case,
JAWS will stop reading a heading title
when it encounters a link. Therefore, each heading title will be read as either "left
bracket" or "edit" when I navigate between
editable sections on a MediaWiki page. I tested this with JAWS 5.1 and 6.0, which
aren't the most recent versions but are still
widely used and the problem appears on both of them. I am using Windows XP with IE 6
(Firefox only works well with the latest
versions of JAWS). The headings were working fine late last night my time (about 15:30 UTC
on 21 October).
I would like this fixed as soon as possible so only the section title is spoken when
navigating through headings.
Thanks,
Graham
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