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Making a scroll bar keyboard accessible
Sandy, I know it doesn't mention anywhere that it is, but it is fixed as far as I can see, unless we are talking about a different thing, from what I see it is working
To create a test file
1. Make sure you have the latest update
2. start a new file, insert scroll entry field,
3. insert one or multiple blocks of text
4. Publish - et voila,
5 test by using tab and the arrow keys on the scroll field
- you can now select the scroll entry field with the tab key, which you can then control with the arrow keys, you can give the scroll entry field an alt tag(e.g. use arrow keys or skip this field). the screen reader will read all the text in an element (and?) or the alt tag. Again you can test this, with Jaws screen reader(as an example).
Inside the scroll entry field you keep the elements visible, if it is an image you can turn of the visibility for assistive tech, else you need to insert text for the alt tags, the screen reader should read out all elements.
I've attached a simple test, just tab through the elements, select the scroll and use, the up and down keys to scroll, you will still have to continue to tab through each elements to read each individual element,
if you really want the screen reader to read the text as one, when the user hits the scroll field (for visually impaired people perhaps?) you will have to place all the text in the scroll entry's alt tag, and disable the alt tags from the elements inside the scroll field, I would probably choose against this, and just ad an instructional alt tag to the scroll field.
It's up to you, have fun, try it out, if we are talking about the same thing(arrow control on the scroll) it is fixed, maybe because they fixed the sliders, and didn't mention the scroll (similar?)
thanks, bye
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