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Re: Which of these is better for screenreaders?

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From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Date: Jan 8, 2009 3:45PM

On 8/1/09 00:45, Dean Hamack wrote:
> 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.

Perhaps worth linking you to this old small-scale study of screen reader
user preferences and expectations:

http://www.usability.com.au/resources/ozewai2005/

> It's probably also better from a search engine standpoint.

Not necessarily though. It might be worse, for example, if you're trying
to drive crawlers deeper into the site.

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis