Teleconference Details

• Update on latest version of grid example:
  http://test.cita.uiuc.edu/aria/grid/index.php
• Jaws and Window-eyes behavior on the grid example
• Update on Best Practices
  http://cita.uiuc.edu/collaborate/webmail/bestpractices.php
  The "Keyboard commands and desired action" sub-section of "E-mail Grid View" is up-to-date based on our discussion and consensus.

WebMail Teleconference 04/19/2007
Scribe: No official scribe; merged notes from Hadi and Carl Brasic

Next Meeting

• Date: May 3, 2007
• time: 2:00 PM EDT; 1:00 PM CDT; 12:00 PM MDT; 11:00 AM PDT
• Phone: 217 244-7532 (note: the phone number has changed)
• Scribe: TBD

Attendees

• Hadi Rangin
• Jon Gunderson
• Carl Brasic
• Julio Chavarria
• Matt Anderson
• Ken Petri

Regrets

• Don Evans
• Mike Scott

Discussion

Status of the grid example

• Most keyboard command behaviors are implemented.

Problems with the example

• Mouse click doesn’t focus clicked row
• Shift+TAB doesn’t unfocus the grid.
• Shift+Left/Right focus behavior is wrong
• Currently using title attribute to set accessible name. Should use ARIA labelledby attribute.
• Screen readers fail to announce updates to checked state

Jon talked about the fact that we need to serve pages in xhtml+xml for ARIA to work, which might be a problem since IE doesn't render pages with that mimetype.  Also about how the IBM enable.js script can get around some of those cross-browser difficulties.

Action Items

• Add “Known issues” section to the example
• Jon and Carl are investigating and researching solutions for the problems