Re: Combo box driving me crazy

2011-12-12 Thread Chris Blouch
I took a poke at the site and they are using a 'fake' combo box made using a javascript library called Dojo. Dojo generally has been very good with accessibility but not everything was right from the getgo and apparently the version used on the Harry & David site is 1.3.1, from 3 years ago. Not

Re: Combo box driving me crazy

2011-12-11 Thread Christine Grassman
I did try that, but it didn't take. I also attempted to act as it I was dealing with a pop-up, but that didn't work either. I would never, ever go back to Windows, but I have to say that I have more trouble with Web sites more often now than I ever did with Windows. Flash, particularly, is the b

Re: Combo box driving me crazy

2011-12-11 Thread Mike Arrigo
Usually combo boxes, at least the standard ones that are called combo boxes on windows are pop up menus on the mac. I wonder if the control you are dealing with here is similar to the one on the android market. When you first move to it, it's an edit box, however when you start typing, it change

Re: Combo box driving me crazy

2011-12-11 Thread Christine Grassman
I did have no trouble checking out when I switched to their mobile site; next time, I'll start out on it and see if that makes a difference. Christine On Dec 11, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Mr. L. Alexander wrote: > It's not a voiceover problem. the main cause for some of these combo boxes is > poor codi

Re: Combo box driving me crazy

2011-12-11 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
It's not a voiceover problem. the main cause for some of these combo boxes is poor coding and implementation. there's scenarios where voiceover cannot grab a combo box because the object in question is not in a standard format, instead it may be part of a tailor made design package or something

Re: Combo box driving me crazy

2011-12-11 Thread Christine Grassman
Thanks. I have used their site in the past easily with Windows. A pity. :) On Dec 11, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Red.Falcon wrote: > Hi Christine! > Well I took a look at the site as well! > Although I'm in the UK I also got exactly the same results as you! > Now I do not know if this is a vo or safari or

Re: Combo box driving me crazy

2011-12-11 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Christine! Well I took a look at the site as well! Although I'm in the UK I also got exactly the same results as you! Now I do not know if this is a vo or safari or even the sites problem if a windows user can use the site OK then it might indeed be a vo problem! I can only suggest [if you have

Combo box driving me crazy

2011-12-11 Thread Christine Grassman
All right, all, here's another (probably Safari) problem. I'm trying to purchase a Harry and David gift card: http://www.harryanddavid.com There is a combo box where you must select (or potentially write in, I guess) the desired value of the card. However, I've tried interacting, hitting VO spac