screen reader testers needed!

[jadelennox]

I've made a modified version of the account creation page in order to address bug 1016. I've tested it with JAWS 10 and nVDA, but I know my experience testing as a sighted user is imperfect and doesn't really produce the experience of knowledgeable full-time screen reader users.

I'd love to get several testers trying out this page, with only a multitude of testers with a variety of tools. Because the new page uses WAI-ARIA accessibility encoding, it will have extra features that are only available to people using the newest tools(for example JAWS 10). However, it should still be reporting accurate errors for people using screen readers that don't have WAI-ARIA functionality.

If you are a screen reader user, I would love it if you test that page. Try a bunch of things. Try to create accounts both correctly and incorrectly. Try to create accounts with bad passwords or usernames you've already used. Let me what works and what doesn't!

(You should know something I discovered to much frustration during testing: if you test to make sure that it insists you be over 13 based on your birthday, and then you try again with a much older birthday, the system has a timeout to make sure that you aren't just gaming the system and changing the year of your birth.)

Let me know how the tests go, and tell me what screen reader/operating system/browser combination you are using.

Thank you so much!

Comments

[not_a_sniglet]

Testing now. Will have results to add to this comment momentarily. OS is WINXP SP3, Screen reader is JAWS 10 and Browser is Mozilla Firefox 3.5 I think. Whatever the latest Firefox update is.

And testing completed. That page is beautiful. Just absolutely wonderful. We created an account, and then tested on bad birthdays, bad passwords etc and it seems that the form works and works properly. Beautiful beautiful.

[not_a_sniglet]

And uh if you made an account using that test page, does it actually create an actual account? Or does it just look like it did? Because if it created an actual account I'm going tohave to go poke support folks because I created an account, didn't get a confirmation and have forgotten the pw I used because I thought it was a test. :O

[lightgetsin]

Yeah, that was my bug I believe because I cornered

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Yeah, that was my bug I believe because I cornered <user="synecdochic"> at a party and talked her ear off about it. My problem has always been that my Jaws cursor jumps inexplicably around the form as I'm filling it out -- e.g. I'm sitting in the confirm password field, and it just pops me down to the day of the month. That is still happening in this version. It also just feels funny as I arrow up and down it. Tabbing from field to field is okay, but if I arrow in and out of fields and up and down, I sometimes don't get every line of text between the fields, and then I come back and I do. D and I talked about this and she had a few guesses about why, which of course I now don't remember. It's not intrinsic to the dynamically updating nature of the form, I do know that.

I might also suggest moving the error messages up above the table with the form, rather than leaving them below, because it took me a second of 'eh...?' to find them.

Jaws 10.latest/IE 7.