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Re: Is WebAnywhere a good simulation?

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From: Webb, KerryA
Date: Sep 10, 2010 10:43AM

>
> Kerry,
>
> How useful WebAnywhere will be for your demonstration will depend on
> exactly what you want to demonstrate. It's been a while since I last
> looked at WebAnywhere. At that time, it seemed to provide at least
> basic functionality.
>
> For example, if all you want to do is demonstrate that a screen reader
> can read a basic HTML page and interact with elements like links, it
> should be adequate to the situation. If you are wanting to
demonstrate
> how a screen reader interacts with a rich internet application or how
> someone using a screen reader interacts with a page (the user
> experience.,) it may not be adequate.
>

It's really an awareness thing, so I need to show (very generally) what
the experience it.

Just a bit of background. All Oz governments have signed on to WACG 2.0
level A compliance - applicable now for new content and applicable in
December 2010 for existing content. Although all of our people +should+
be across WCAG, many are not and are not aware of screen readers etc.
I'm just starting to inform them.

Thanks for all the responses.

Kerry
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