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Re: accessible rotating image scripts?

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From: Geof Collis
Date: Jan 22, 2010 4:51PM

Hi Al

Absolutely they are accountable and with Christians' profile telling
me the shortcomings would be better served by contacting screen
reader vendors and letting them know, I'm just the messenger who has
to put up with it.

cheers

Geof
At 06:25 PM 1/22/2010, you wrote:
>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?
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> > 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?
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