I'm newer in Flex and I would like to disable the Navigation Bar and the bookmarks tab cause I need to show a lot of information so I really need to have as much space as it's possible. I do not know what I can do.
Thanks in advance,
Alicia
Do you mean the navigation and bookmarks in the browser?
Depending on the content of your application, you could potentially use full screen mode, but that has some restrictions around keyboard input (only some keys are allowed such as arrow keys, enter key etc)
Otherwise you may just need to prompt the user to turn their browser to full-screen so that they can see as much of the app as possible.
Browser full-screen/maximise is different from Flash full-screen as all keyboard input is still possible.
As far as I know there wouldn't be a way to actually modify the appearance of the browser from within a Flash application.
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Does anyone know if the aria authoring web page is keyboard accessible(https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.1/) ? Looking for keyboard interaction assistance to move focus between the left and right pane.
It'd be nice if browsers took advantage of landmarks so that keyboard users would benefit. Currently, only screen reader users benefit from them. Most applications on a PC allow the F6 key to navigate to different areas. Try it in Word, Excel, browsers, whatever desktop apps. It even sort of works on the authoring practice page, but not completely (at least not in firefox).
We had to implement our own landmarks dialog that we invoked with Ctrl+F6 (so it'd be similar to F6) and we'd query the page for landmark roles and display them in a dialog to allow you to quickly jump to a section of the page.
Skip links are about as close as you can get now, but even that wouldn't help on a page like the authoring practice. If I had tabbed through half the links in the left nav panel and then decided I wanted to move the main contents in the right panel, a skip link wouldn't help. I'd have to navigate back to the skip link in order to jump to the main section. It'd be nice to hit a key while I was in the middle of the left nav to jump me to the right side.
You could use the accesskey attribute to allow a shortkey to move between the two, but those are hard to discover. JAWS will tell you about the accesskey but NVDA and VoiceOver will not. If you don't have any indication on the screen that there's a shortcut/accesskey, then how will people know it's there. Once they know about it, it's great. For example, wikipedia has an accesskey='f' on the search field, but you might not know that. Once you do know it, it's great to be in the middle of a wiki article and hit alt+shift+f (on firefox and chrome) or alt+f (internet explorer) to quickly jump to the search field.
You could do the same with a left panel / right panel configuration if you had an accesskey on an object in the left panel and a different accesskey on an object in the right panel. Just make sure users know about it.
Is there a simple way to trigger a mobile OS's native pop-up/alert/etc. from some form of web code? I'm writing an ASP.NET mobile web page and I'd like to, for example, have the iPhone's UIAlertView appear.
EDIT: What I'm looking for is not the method with which to detect which mobile browser is accessing the site (I already know how to do that). If the code to trigger a pop-up that will look nice in an Android browser is different than the code to trigger a pop-up that will look nice in an iPhone browser, I can simply throw in a switch statement that redirects the user to the pop-up that corresponds with their browser. I'm trying to find the html/javascript/asp.net code which will create a mobile-friendly pop-up, either in general or for the various popular mobile web browsers specifically.
Don't know whether there is any pre-built functionality in .NET that can achieve this, but you can surely write one yourself.
You can write a method, that returns the code for your popup, based on the user OS (simple switch statement should do).
EDIT after taking a short nap:
I believe you should reconsider using popups. They are quite annoying even on desktop browsers and many people block them automatically. Probably every blog about accessibility will tell you, that you should keep mobile version of your website as simple as possible because of various compatibility issues that you can run into.
Instead, try to think about some interesting way to incorporate messages for users in a different and appealing way, that won't disturb anybody.
What I do is use a div popup (that floats ontop of the page) and eighter make a big close button or set at timeout to remove it.
jquery mobile is a good place to start.
I'm having problems making FullCalendar fully accessible. I'm using the default month view and can't access the next, previous, and today buttons on the top right without using a mouse. If I run a screen reader, I can access those buttons but not without running the screen reader.
And on another note, I currently am using tool tips that pop up when you mouse over an event title to display more information. If anyone has any tips on how to make those accessible to a screen reader or accessible without a mouse, I'd greatly appreciate it!
Regarding the buttons, I would advice that you write new buttons if accessibility is important. These buttons you could then hook up to your own javascript functions that moves to previous and next.
Check out this documentation example
Regarding the second problem, I think that's the same problem not just for physically impaired but also for things like mobile browsers. My tip would be to avoid onmouseover if the information that appears is really important.
Can any one tell how to disable focus to a browser.
Hi i am currently working in .net application and i need to disable the tab focus to browser objects such as toolbars,address bar, since the user will not be using these components often
Thank you
Please don't do this, it breaks what the user expects a webpage to do. Messing with the fundamental behavior breaks several things:
My tab button and where I expect it to go
Screen readers for the disabled
Trust in your application
In some cases, you need to ask why? before asking how?, this is one of those. Anything that behaves differently from the other 99.9999% of the web is broken in the eyes of your user.
Well, I agree with Nick Craver. If you have to disable due to some crap requirements, then try opening a new window without toolbar, editable address bar etc and load the page inside the newly opened window.
I'm working on something that needs a webpage to go full screen. The screen must become completely white.
Is there anyway that I can do this without flash or silverlight?
Thanks in advance
edit: Im not trying to force anybody into fullscreen, this will be mainly used by a couple of people. Even so I'll give proper feedback on how to get in and out of fullscreen .
You cant do full screen, because of security reasons the title bar is still there and so on in different browsers.
But a way could be to make the window larger than the screen, lets say 100 pixels wider and 100 pixels higher and position the window at -50, -50. I havent tried that but if there is no restrains against window size being bigger than screen size it could be a solution.
With JavaScript:
window.open ("http://stackoverflow.com", "","fullscreen=yes");
The size of the window varies between browsers, but actually in IE, you will have the desired behavior...
Please dont resize the user's web browser. I use the rest of my screen for other things, and I think many users do too. A respectful website stays where the browser puts it.
"Something like ajax for example?"...
Ajax != Javascript.
Your responsibility as a web site operator is to have some manners and allow the user to control the size.
You could read the screen.width and screen.height and if they are far off the document.body.clientHeight or document.body.clientWidth, alert the user that the page should be viewed in fullscreen mode and how to make it fullscreen (F12 for IE - i think, F11 for FF).
No, you can't control the browser in that way with javascript.
You can instruct your users to use firefox 3, and press F11 to enter full screen mode. the title bar will go away if the mouse isn't near the top of the screen.
Yes, it requires user interaction, but if they want to go into full screen then it's easy for them to do so under their own power, and to leave again when they want to.
-Adam
Well, I see that you are trying to simply have a button that will make the page full-screen; similar to the youtube full screen mode.
As well, I do NOT suggest using the "just hit F11" method, as people on Safari, or Mac in general, will be excluded.
You can use C#, which can be done by downloading Visual Studio or MS Visulal C#, or even CosmosBoot. There is plenty of code for full screen applications in C#. Another good thing about full screen in C# is that it can be easily embedded into a webpage, through some simplye ASP code.
You can use java, which can be painfully slow, and require a lot of coding, but it is attainable. You can use one of several hundred IDEs or JDKs, but I don't really use java, so I can't give you much in the way of advice on programming it, but it is EVEN EASIER to embed than C#, all you need is the tag.