WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: <strong> vs <em>

for

From: Patrick Burke
Date: Feb 15, 2007 3:20PM

At 02:28 PM 2/14/2007, Joshue O Connor wrote:
>I cannot but watch this thread with amusement in that I cant imagine any
>ordinary screen reader user doing any of the suggested steps whether its
>
> > hit ins+f+f (quickly) to get the text characteristics.
>
>or modifying the configuration manager to ensure bold or italicized text
>is read out.

After a few minutes of hearing exactly how many font/color changes
there are on the web, I was grateful to be able to switch back to
"Classic" mode & ignore whatever emphasis might lurk there. :)

Anyway, keyboard interfaces are funny things, esp. when all the good
key combinations get eaten up by your "productivity" apps.

So, there's not really an easy way around this. Jaws has mostly shied
away from using blips & beeps to indicate text changes, although this
approach has gained a foothold in Apple's Voiceover program. But it's
hard to find a method that some people won't find annoying.

Anyway, for those wanting to dig into the Jaws web features, here is
a tutorial (linked to in the Jaws help file for IE):

<http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/Surfs_Up/_Surfs_Up_Start_Here.htm>;

Patrick


--
Patrick J. Burke

Coordinator
UCLA Disabilities &
Computing Program

Phone: 310 206-6004
E-mail: <EMAIL REMOVED>