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Re: accessible rotating image scripts?

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From: Al Sparber
Date: Jan 22, 2010 4:27PM

Screen readers are as smart as the persons who programmed them are. And I
agree wholeheartedly that a list of 1 is as much a list as a party of 1 is a
party. But the bottom line is that is that the biggest impediment to
accessibility is the quality and intelligence of the programs written to
help disabled people, such as Jaws, Window Eyes, et al. These companies are
the ones that primarily need to be held accountable. As for Christian's
example, it is very nice, your complaint notwithstanding, but not very
practical unless the images are kept very small in size and number.

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

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From: "Geof Collis" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 5:52 PM
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] accessible rotating image scripts?

> 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?