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Re: evaluating accessibility with WCAG 2.0 (Angela French)

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From: Keith (mteye)
Date: Apr 8, 2011 5:27PM

I know what you are talking about when you say it would be incorrectly
interpreted by a screen reader. However, the screen reader actually will
intpret it for what it is, a series of inline text that happens to have a
mixture of text and hyperlinks. It then relies on the user's mental feedback
to determine what it is. Userfeed being the variable that is often the
weakest, and widest open to interpretation and control.

I've done this same thing often myself, and it's a habit that I'm breaking.
It's just a quick and dirty way to slap out a quick "Link bar" at the end of
a page, for example. List elements are the way to go. It may be that a self
trained html coder isn't aware of the method to create horizontal lists,
rather than a vertical list (default behavior for browsers.) There's no
excuse for someone claiming to be a professional web designer.

Just a personal observation, and opinion.

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Keith H

-----Original Message-----
From: Karen Sorensen
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 1:29 PM
To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] evaluating accessibility with WCAG 2.0 (Angela French)

Good reminder John Hicks. The separation of content from
design/layout/format with CSS is critical. If the pipes are used to separate
a list, but the list isn't HTML coded as a list, that would be interpreted
incorrectly by a screen reader.

Karen Sorensen
PCC Instructional Technology Specialist
Coordinating ADA Compliance of Instructional Media
971-722-4720