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

[Steve Swinsburg]

FYI this is what was called MailSender.

cheers,
Steve


On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Matt Clare <Matt.Clare at brocku.ca> wrote:

> 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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