Transcript for Show and Hide Form Sections

RH: From a usability ... AD (laughs): Take seven. [Both laugh]

RH: With some forms it is really handy to be able

to only show the parts of the form that are relevant to the needs of the user

at a particular time; these can sometimes change, for example

do you want insure your house or your boat.

This can be really important for people cognitive disabilities.

But, sometimes in the past when

showing and hiding bits of forms, it presented

problems with screen readers. Now Andrew, we've got an example

where it works well for screen readers. Is that right?

AD: Yes, correct.

[READER: "Heading 1, show hide display none, begin form.

Ice cream options. Ice cream options,

fieldset. Radio button not checked cone, cone.

Radio button not checked tub, tub.

Which flavour do you prefer? Vanilla. Combo box which flavour do you ..

AD: Now I will make a choice. [READER: "Tub, radio button not checked

tub, checked. One heading. Tub.

Whch flavour do you prefer? Vanilla, combo box which

flavour do you prefer?

AD: So in that case nothing changed but if I

go back and select 'cone'...

[READER: "Radio button checked tub. Cone, radio - checked.

One heading. Cone. Radio button

unchecked tub. What size cone do you prefer?

Single, combo box what size cone do you prefer?

Browse off. Double, jumbo..."]

AD: If you don't mind

[READER: "Which flavour do you prefer? Vanilla combo box,

strawberry, chocolate"]

RH: OK, so in this case here ...

AD: When I selected cone it brought up the extra information

and when I selected tub it didn't.

And, that's again very nice from

everyone's point of view.

As you mentioned, for people with cognitive

difficulties having to do more reading, it cuts

that out and for people with screen readers its very nice not to have to read

a whole lot of stuff that isn't relevant.

RH: Again, does it work with both Jaws and Window ...

AD: Yes, yes, it works exactly the same. RH: So very useful. FADE OUT