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From: adam solomon
Date: Feb 1, 2011 1:15AM

The app includes a search form which gives you the ability to filter
results, and generally, it is expected someone would filter the results to
only a few pages. But, if one does not filter, then he can get access to the
whole list. No one is going to actually know what schools are on each page
(each page contains about 15 results), but someone who didn't filter and
wanted to navigate to the a school starting with the letter m (middle of the
alphabet) would have to navigate a whole lot either way.

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Jordan, Courtney < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> That's certainly a lot of pages! Is there any way that you can break it
> up into categories? Even as a sighted user, I would be frustrated
> looking through 500 options in a drop-down list. That is assuming that I
> even knew what the particular title of the page was. We can't expect
> people to remember the title of every page. People can generally hold
> about 5-7 or fewer items in memory. From my experience using JAWS 9, I
> couldn't get the screen reader to "read" any items under the first one.
> It would automatically trigger the first one and I would never get to
> the others. Including a button avoided that issue as it didn't trigger a
> JavaScript event from the drop-down selection itself, but from the
> clicking of the button.
>
> Good luck!
> Courtney Jordan
>
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