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From: Keith (mteye)
Date: Mar 23, 2011 4:27PM


Not sure what you mean by the stragedy behind it.

That the link was at the bottom of the page? It has to go somewhere, and it
seemed that the article touting the concern of accessibility was intended to
be the main focus, and the following segments were to show the methods taken
to do so.

That they offer talking technology? Personally, if a disabled person is
going to need speech technology, they probably already have it in the first
place, and a talking plugin on a page just seems redundant to me. It's worth
a try, and as soon as I get done typing this, I plan on downloading the
plugin to see exactly how it works.

I suppose if a person really needed it, they could first get a sighted
helper to place a shortcut on their desktop, and assign hotkeys to open it
up to enjoy the accessible page.

I don't anticipate the web page voice will be any more flexible, or
intuitive to use than ascreen reader, but maybe it could feasibly read an
object that might otherwise be hidden by screen reading technology.

just some observations.

keith H.
-----Original Message-----
From: LSnider
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 1:42 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: [WebAIM] BrowseAloud

Hi All,

Someone just sent this to me...The Library of Congress finally updated their
web site. They now have a speech enabled feature using BrowseAloud. The info
is at the bottom of this page:
http://www.loc.gov/access/web.html

It was interesting to me that they put this speech enabled link at the
bottom of their main page, but at least it is there (I haven't studied their
code yet to see where it comes up with a screen reader).

What do you think of this strategy? Have you used this?

Thanks

Lisa