Comments for iheni :: making the web worldwide http://www.iheni.com Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:52:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on (X)HTML and ARIA validation – practical results vs. purity win? by Tom http://www.iheni.com/aria-and-validation/comment-page-1/#comment-25157 Tom Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:52:21 +0000 http://www.iheni.com/?p=1883#comment-25157 thanks for the post and for the really good comments. my favorite is the firefox validation tool. thanks for the post and for the really good comments. my favorite is the firefox validation tool.

]]> Comment on Setting up a screen reader test environment by AMABADI http://www.iheni.com/screen-reader-testing/comment-page-1/#comment-25062 AMABADI Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:11:44 +0000 http://www.iheni.com/?p=855#comment-25062 sirs Automatic page updates causing problems with your screen reader I have the above problem on my computer screen while started. pls show solution sirs
Automatic page updates causing problems with your screen reader
I have the above problem on my computer screen while started.
pls show solution

]]> Comment on (X)HTML and ARIA validation – practical results vs. purity win? by Gorazd Svajger http://www.iheni.com/aria-and-validation/comment-page-1/#comment-24970 Gorazd Svajger Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:50:14 +0000 http://www.iheni.com/?p=1883#comment-24970 ARIA Best Practices suggest adding ARIA-related attributes via scripting. That way the document validates and has the necessary attributes. Plus it's unobtrusive. No sense in having those attributes if scripting is disabled anyway. Having said that, I have no experience with any screen reader, so I can only speak theoretically. Keep that in mind while firing up the flamethrower. ARIA Best Practices suggest adding ARIA-related attributes via scripting. That way the document validates and has the necessary attributes.
Plus it’s unobtrusive. No sense in having those attributes if scripting is disabled anyway.

Having said that, I have no experience with any screen reader, so I can only speak theoretically. Keep that in mind while firing up the flamethrower.

]]> Comment on “Where’s my Googlebox?!” – adventures in search for silver surfers by Rosemary Gabel http://www.iheni.com/wheres-my-googlebox-adventures-in-search-for-silver-surfers/comment-page-1/#comment-24839 Rosemary Gabel Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:58:18 +0000 http://www.iheni.com/?p=1943#comment-24839 Teaching beginners is my job, both the Seniors and the primary grade (K-6) children. One of my big frustrations has been trying to get them to use the keyboard. Kinders do everything with a mouse (they're just learning their letters...) so the mouse habit is learned first. Only after they start learning their touch typing (3rd grade) can I even begin to get them to use the Enter key.. even so, they will still reach for the mouse. With the Seniors it is the same if they have NEVER learned touch typing. The children have the same trouble knowing in which box to type a search query. Unfortunately, the 20 min of instruction to know the difference between the browser and the web page, has not been given the priority it needs (by administrators, and teachers alike.) They just need to "get there fast!" So, hats off to the programmers who let the URL box be equally useful to Search. Now they can use the tool, without having to understand it. (The same as everyone who looks at an unfamiliar tool, and just uses trial and error to make it work.) I wish it were a properly organized world, but then, I didn't build it! Very few people want to take the time to learn.. they just want results. So the more clues given on the page, the better, like a grayed out word IN the box saying "SEARCH". Keep up the useability testing, and keep it intuitive..(not assumed!) Teaching beginners is my job, both the Seniors and the primary grade (K-6) children. One of my big frustrations has been trying to get them to use the keyboard. Kinders do everything with a mouse (they’re just learning their letters…) so the mouse habit is learned first. Only after they start learning their touch typing (3rd grade) can I even begin to get them to use the Enter key.. even so, they will still reach for the mouse. With the Seniors it is the same if they have NEVER learned touch typing.
The children have the same trouble knowing in which box to type a search query. Unfortunately, the 20 min of instruction to know the difference between the browser and the web page, has not been given the priority it needs (by administrators, and teachers alike.)
They just need to “get there fast!” So, hats off to the programmers who let the URL box be equally useful to Search. Now they can use the tool, without having to understand it. (The same as everyone who looks at an unfamiliar tool, and just uses trial and error to make it work.) I wish it were a properly organized world, but then, I didn’t build it!
Very few people want to take the time to learn.. they just want results. So the more clues given on the page, the better, like a grayed out word IN the box saying “SEARCH”. Keep up the useability testing, and keep it intuitive..(not assumed!)

]]> Comment on WAI-ARIA, last call for comments and what you think counts by 就要发 http://www.iheni.com/wai-aria-last-call-for-comments-and-what-you-think-counts/comment-page-1/#comment-24823 就要发 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:43:01 +0000 http://www.iheni.com/?p=905#comment-24823 恩,回忆,永远都回不去的记忆… 恩,回忆,永远都回不去的记忆…

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