voice activation

Hi Roger,

 

I was also having problems dictating into the Customer ID field. I could type letters by announcing “type J”, “type A”, and so on…

 

This is an awkward way of entering a password. A Dragon user has a couple of ways to navigate through this:

 

1. A Dragon user can say “Button” to present flags next to the BUTTON elements. The flags will appear but unfortunately, the flags do not align well on the page so it is hard to select the correct flag.
2. A user may voice keyboard commands such as “Press Tab”, “Press Shift Tab”, “Press Space”, and “Press Enter”. The focus will move as the keyboard commands are voiced.
3. A user may voice the NATO phonetic alphabet like “Alpha”, “Bravo”, “Charlie” to set focus to the keyboard letters. I don’t know if the use of the Dragon spelling-alphabet is different in other countries.

 

Many Dragon users will attempt to navigate and activate content by speaking the words that are seen visually on the screen. Currently, the inner text of the hyperlink tabs is “personal” and “business” respectively. I would suggest placing the full text (as seen visually in the buttons) as the anchor text of your hyperlinks:

 

<UL sizcache="44" sizset="41">

<LI sizcache="44" sizset="41"><A href="#"><I>Personal customers</I></A></LI>

<LI sizcache="44" sizset="42"><A href="#"><I>Business customers</I></A></LI>

</UL>

 

Good Luck

Jason Megginson

 

 

Hi

 

I have an interesting problem which I hope someone might be able to throw some light on.

 

A bank is currently testing the accessibility of a login facility for internet banking. It appears to be accessible with a screen reader and is not mouse dependent. However, we are having problems getting it to work with Dragon – very difficult to use Dragon to enter ID and password with voice only. Also difficult to navigate with Dragon. Could it be something to do with the JavaScript?

 

If anyone has any experience with voice input accessibility would they mind having a quick look at this https://online.westpac.com.au/esis/Login/SrvPage?referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.westpac.com.au%2F . All suggestions appreciated.

 

Thanks

Roger

 

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