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Re: Is this slider accessible to screenreader users?

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From: Al Sparber
Date: Dec 7, 2009 11:12AM

"Geof Collis" wrote:
I dont experience anything on these pages, I get 3 links that do nothing and
3 headings with text in them and that is before I even start clicking on the
links. It tells me that if the test was successful I would have read all the
explanations but I did without doing anything.

Hi Geof,

I removed the greater than symbols :-)

So you actually read all of the content. The confusion is in the trigger
links that actuate the content panels for sighted users. This is something
we are still working on. Most of our blind testers are used to "same-page"
links or set their readers, 90+% JAWS, to simply read readings. There is no
doubt confusion to one extent or another with these "links" and we are
working on that. The greater problem, however, is that accessibility
researchers within the web development community are trying to develop
solutions that work around the absence of features within assistive readers
that could easily enable web developers to hide things or tailor a document
to "show" only that which is necessary for a blind person's device to "see".

Sadly, I've yet to see a movement or an effort to get JAWS, and the like, to
implement tools that developers can use to make accessibility simple.

--
Al Sparber - PVII
http://www.projectseven.com