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From: Peter Van Dijck
Date: Feb 26, 2002 6:26AM

Hi Mark,
those are interesting points. I've been trying to find out what *really* are
the important points for people using screen readers. Here's my list so far,
could you comment on this?
Most important things to do for screenreader users on websites:

1. provide either "skip navigation" link, if navigation comes before
content, or provide "skip to navigation" link, if navigation comes after
content.

2. Provide list of anchor links to subsections if the page contains a lot of
text.

3. Alt tags

4. Make it clear where they are in the site. This is often made explicit
only by visual design elements like color of tabs.

Could you and other screen reader users elaborate on the experience of using
a screen reader? Stragegies you use to make your life easier? I have used
them for testing, but I think experienced screen reader users will have
typical behaviour we need to support that I don't know about.

Thanks,
Peter


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