Presenting user interface elements to a screen reader using placeholders
AssigneeSap SE
InventorsJosef Dietl, Andreas Rossler
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing information to a screen reader. A method includes the actions of receiving information for representing a web page in a browser; setting focus initially on an element of the web page and presenting the web page to a user; and in response to a user command directing the focus to consecutive target elements of the web page, assigning information related to each target element to a placeholder control and providing a screen reader with access to the placeholder control as the element having focus.
Claims18
A computer-implemented method for providing information to a screen reader, comprising:
- receiving information for representing a web page in a browser;
- setting focus initially on an element of the web page and presenting the web page to a user;
- and
- in response to a user command directing the focus to consecutive target elements of the web page, assigning information related to each target element to a placeholder control and providing a screen reader with access to the placeholder control as the element having focus.
A computer program product, tangibly embodied on an information carrier, operable to cause a data process apparatus to perform the operations of:
- receiving information for representing a web page in a browser;
- setting focus initially on an element of the web page and presenting the web page to a user;
- and
- in response to a user command directing the focus to consecutive target elements of the web page, assigning information related to each target element to a placeholder control and providing a screen reader with access to the placeholder control as the element having focus.
A system comprising:
- means for receiving information for representing a web page in a browser;
- setting focus initially on an element of the web page and presenting the web page to a user;
- and
- means operable in response to a user command directing the focus to consecutive target elements of the web page for assigning information related to each target element to a placeholder control and for providing a screen reader with access to the placeholder control as the element having focus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.