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Re: Re-order page content

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From: Sandy Feldman
Date: Jun 2, 2017 12:08PM

Would creating ARIA regions be useful here? Would it be easier to skip
the instructions and login if instructions were in a region labelled
"login instructions" and the login wasin a region labelled "login"?
Would headings with those names be better?

Sandy

On 2017-06-02 9:41 AM, John Foliot wrote:
> Specific to Joseph's question:
>
> Not seeing the actual design in question, I still will suggest that for
> maximum usability (including sighted keyboard-only users) putting the
> repeat action (Log-In) ahead of the (presumably) one-time, or limited-time
> use of "Instructions" actually makes sense over the aggregate: non-sighted
> users won't need to hear the instructions*every* time they arrive at that
> page, only the first time (or perhaps the first few times - but the log-in
> process will be, and become, a rote activity over time).
>
> (Think of this in terms similar to "skip-nav"... skipping over repeated or
> non-needed content to get to the "meat" of the page in question - here, to
> log-in.