[WG: Accessibility] Problem with Email Tool in CLE 2.9

[Matt Clare]

Hi Dave,

	Thanks for letting us know about this. Hopefully we can help.

	I’m not familiar with the “Email” tool, but I see that it has been included with Sakai since 2.9, but I do not believe this group has reviewed it before.  What’s currently in Sakai’s trunk codebase does appear to have form labels, but I haven’t given it an extensive review.  The experience with’s Apple’s VoiceOver seemed OK, but I’ll try to get some time with it and JAWS.

	The Messages tool has been reviewed a number of times and has only a few outstanding accessibility issues.

	.\.\att

On Apr 29, 2014, at 07:00 , Scoville, David <scovildj at miamioh.edu> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> We received the following message from a blind student:
> 
> "This evening, I was sending an email to my class with an
> announcement about a relevant on-campus event. When I pressed enter on
> the "email" link on the courses site, I was presented with a page that
> had approximately 20 unlabelled buttons on it that JAWS just announced
> as "button." I am not sure what any of these buttons do, nor exactly
> if or how my email was presented to the class. It concerns me that
> there are such a number of these unlabelled buttons and I am wondering
> if there is anything we can do to resolve this problem. "
> 
> The site is configured to allow students to send email via the Email tool.
> 
> Is this a known issue?
> 
> Is the Messages tool in 2.9 generally more accessible than the Email tool? Both use the CK editor.
> 
> Thanks for any advice,
> Dave
> 
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> Dave Scoville
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Matt Clare
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  Centre for Pedagogical Innovation 
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  Interactive Arts and Sciences
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