I tried to customize the dashboard earlier today. I went to dashboard>customize your dashboard and figured out that nothing happened except a reload of the current (dashboard) page. What is going wrong? I use JAWS 12 and am supposedly using the overlay even though drupal 7 isn't actually loading it for some reason.

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Everett Zufelt’s picture

Everett Zufelt CreditAttribution: Everett Zufelt commented
Priority: Critical » Normal

@Andy

Things that are confusing are not generally critical, see issue priorities for a explanation of priorities.

Can you please let us know what version of D7 you are using, if it is Head then the time that you downloaded it? Can you be a little more descriptive about what you are attempting to do, and what exactly you are experiencing? You may also contact me everett@zufelt.ca if you would like to talk through the issue.

Note, that I am not saying that you are incorrect about the Dashboard being confusing, just that this isn't likely a release blocker.

Andy B’s picture

Andy B CreditAttribution: Andy B commented

Have to reset my dev setup so will get to this when I get D7 dev on a roll again.

Andy B’s picture

Andy B CreditAttribution: Andy B commented
Title: Customizing the dashboard is a confusing matter » Customizing the dashboard is impossible for screen reader users

Ok. Here we go.

I checked out the dashboard and how to customize it just a few minutes ago. This is what I came up with. For the most part, customizing the dashboard is impossible for screen reader users because it requires a user to drag and drop module titles from one area of the page to some columns in another area of the page. Here are some points of interest:

1. Screen reader users can't drag/drop on websites because
A. The visual references to drag from/to are not helpful (drag the blocks below to the desired columns).
B. There isn't a drag/drop area the screen readers can draw a boundry around so it knows what it is dealing with.
- How do we know exactly where the columns are?
- How can we tell where the dragable handles are? (Drag the blocks below...) doesn't answer where exactly to start gragging from.
C. The screen reader developers haven't done much for the ability to drag/drop on websites.

I would recommend that any surface in drupal that is drag/drop should have a way of access for users who can't drag/drop at all. "use non-dragable interface" or some sort of link should be given. I'm thinking of the non javascript version of D76.19. Install it and then turn javascript in your browser off. Go take it for a spin and you will know what I mean. Either way, I have to ignore the dashboard for this reason.