[Contrib: Evaluation System] ADA compliance and EVALSYS

[Adam Marshall]

| -----Original Message-----
| From: evaluation-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:evaluation-
| bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Silverio, Gonzalo
| Sent: 23 August 2010 16:41
| To: Ellen Yu Borkowski
| Cc: evaluation at collab.sakaiproject.org
| Subject: Re: [Contrib: Evaluation System] ADA compliance and EVALSYS
| 
| Hi Ellen.
| 
| I did a fairly extensive accessibility check of EVALSYS three years ago
| and checked the major user facing screens again this year. Without more
| details it would be hard to know what is going on here. Important
| information would consist of:
| 
| 1) JAWS version
| 2) EVALSYS version
| 3) Specific element types that the user had problems with
| 
| Quite a bit of the work I did on EVALSYS-635, EVALSYS-426, EVALSYS-425,
| etc. involved rearranging the elements so that labels and inputs were
| consonant. In order to do this with some of the elements I had to
| resort to scripting, which would need a newer version of JAWS to work.
| 
| Some elements do not have labels - or if they do have a label, no text
| inside of it. This is by design (Lickert-like scales, for example just
| have a left and right label). Other elements like grouped elements did
| not not have explicit labels till I re-instrumented them recently. In
| any case - more information is needed, I would gladly take a look.

Maybe the lickhert scales should have hidden labels (class="skip") for accessibility purposes.

adam