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From: Mike Osborne - AccEase
Date: Dec 21, 2009 3:36PM

Hi Geof

Call me heading crazy - but I agree with Margit.

Visually Main Menu" and "Categories" perform the function of being headings
for the "content" that follows - little matter that "content" is navigation.

If a screen reader chooses to scope the page by listening to all headings
first up they will miss those sections - which may be where they want to go
- yes, you've got them covered by links, but no harm in covering all bases.

Semantically, Main Menu and Categories are not paragraphs - so what are
they?

"ACCESSIBILITY" presumably should also be a heading - it's clearly not a
paragraph.

Couple of other observations - on first look I didn't realise the site was a
blog or had a blog and "Categories" seemed meaningless, perhaps the more
explicit "Blog Categories" might be better.

I presume that the white on black style as default is for
accessibility/legibility purposes rather than stylistic ones (?) - in which
case I find it interesting that highlights are shown as black text on white
which would be harder to read for people who prefer white on black. Wouldn't
a highlighting mechanism that fits the white on black style be more
appropriate?

Strongly applaud your styling of link focus so that tabbing really stands
out - not done often enough!

Why is Search not where you'd expect it to be - top right?

I tried changing Accessibility Options to my preferred black on white - but
results were mixed and then couldn't get back to white on black.

When I click "High Contrast" not sure what changed or what style I'm
currently in. If the choices are one of Default colours, High Contrast and
Mobile - which I'm now guessing they might be - perhaps radio buttons would
make that clearer?



Regards
Mike Osborne

AccEase Ltd
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