Using jqxGrid with screen reader

[mfearbyParticipant]

I’m evaluating the possibility of using jQWidgets for a project and need to make sure it’s accessible. I tried navigating around the jqxGrid using the NVDA screen reader for Windows but it won’t read out anything whenever I arrow around the cells. I’ve tried Chrome and Firefox. At times I can get it to read back each letter of text in the cells but then it’s not moving the cell focus as I do this, so I’m not sure what weird mode NVDA got itself into, but most of the time when I can move around the cells with the keyboard, it won’t read back anything.

Do jQWidgets have any plans to improve accessibility, particularly with the grid?

Thanks.

[HristoParticipant]

Hello mfearby,

Unfortunately, we do not have experience with “NVDA screen”.
Maybe if you provide us with more details what it what methods use or what it expect then I could try to provide you with a solution.
Also, I would like to suggest you look at this example.
It demonstrates how dynamically change the content of the tooltip depends on the hovered cell.

Best Regards,
Hristo Hristov

jQWidgets team
http://www.jqwidgets.com

[mfearbyParticipant]

NVDA is a free screen reader that’s pretty good, actually. The blind people I know tell me that it’s quite respectable, and given the price, it’s ideal for web developers to test that things are accessible.

I tried using NVDA with that example and it doesn’t read out any of the tooltips unless I move my mouse over the cells, which is not something I could get away with asking vision impaired users to do. Simply moving around the cells with the arrow keys on my keyboard should read back the text in the focused cell, but it does not.

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