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Re: Which of these is better for screenreaders?

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From: Randall Pope
Date: Jan 8, 2009 9:30AM

Hi Dean,

This is coming from a low vision DeafBlind's perspective.

In your first email, most people who are DeafBlind using the screen readers
like the second one.

In this email, I love the CSS switcher without using java script. For some
reason, there is a good number of DeafBlind using older assistive technology
are having some issues with java script. But I'm not exactly sure what are
the issues. One question comes to mind. Will this work with Joomla?

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-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Dean Hamack
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 7:46 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Which of these is better for screenreaders?

Thanks Dave. I think a lot of us sighted web developers make incorrect
assumptions about what is best for blind users. For example, I have always
put the navigation links before the content in my pages. But it makes sense
that the content should come first, since it's the most important thing.
It's probably also better from a search engine standpoint.

In other news: after searching everywhere for a stylesheet switcher that was
accessible and worked without javascript without any success, I finally have
one built that works great. Anyone who is interested can check it out here:

http://bushidodesigns.net/switcher/example.php


On 1/7/09 1:11 PM, "David Andrews" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> For what is is worth, I like the second one better. There is more
> navigation, and you get to the meat quicker. I am blind, and a
> screen reader user.
>
> Dave