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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Mar 23, 2011 3:54PM

Kerry and all.

If it is used as such, and the rest of the page is accessible to
screen reader users, I happily stand corrected and applaud the
developers the extra effort.
If any self-voicing software is used as a replacement for good web
page design and screen reader accessibility, that's where I get
worried.

On 3/23/11, Webb, KerryA < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Birkir wrote:
>>
>> In general, and you can call me idealistic, I am extremely weary of
>> solutions where the developer of a web page has to write a lot of
>> special code to make the page accessible to a group of people.
>
> I'll happily call you idealistic, but if you look at Browsealoud you'll see
> that the web developer does not have to write a lot of special code. It
> doesn't work that way.
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> And, as it's been pointed out, it's directed at people with cognitive
> disabilities who'll benefit from the content being read out, rather than
> people with vision impairment.
>
> Kerry
> --
> Kerry Webb
> Manager, Policy Office
> Shared Services | ACT Government
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