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Re: avoiding tabbing through drop downs

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From: ckrugman
Date: Mar 6, 2010 12:00AM

as a screen reader user I want to make the choices of what I access on a
page and not have parts that are inacessible or marginally accessible.
Chuck
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> John Foliot wrote:
>
>> Just curious to know how many people provided this feedback to you. A
>> panel of 5 experienced users will generally always return back that kind
>> of answer, but a panel of 5,000 users of various ability and set-top
>> configurations might not.
>
> I cannot give you numbers, but I can tell you that the users with
> disabilities who provide us with feedback range from programmers
> to novice computer users. Some are blind or low vision, some are
> keyboard-only, some are voice control, some have visual
> processing disorders, some have cognitive impairments.
>
> What we have found is that our users are either prefer the
> flexibility of being able to access drop-down menus, or don't
> even notice the drop down menus. Nobody who has given us feedback
> has been bothered by them.
>
> Again, this is true of our user base, and is presumably not true
> of every other user community. But that's true of all
> accessibility programming: as WebAIM says, "there is no typical
> screen reader user". Therefore, you program for the needs of your
> user community.
>
> -deborah
>