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Re: accessible rotating image scripts?

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From: Geof Collis
Date: Jan 22, 2010 3:54PM

Who said screen readers were clever?

Since they're aren't so smart then perhaps the person designing
should be more clever than a screen reader and not use a list, when
clearly 1 item does not constitute a list?

cheers

Geof





At 05:06 PM 1/22/2010, you wrote:
>Geof Collis wrote:
> > That is cool but I'm not fussy on the list, as I tab back and forth I
> > have to listen to the "list of 1 items" every time, would be less
> > verbose if I just got the alt text.
> >
> > cheers
>Cause needs testing, that. This is interesting cause every time you mark
>up a list of images semantically as a list you get this feedback from
>screen reader users. Screen readers should be clever enough not to write
>out lists of one item as a list.
>
>