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Re: evaluating accessibility with WCAG 2.0 (Angela French)

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From: Tania
Date: Apr 11, 2011 8:57PM

view as a screenreader user:
- if it is a short list of items, I prefer <p>
- a long list, prefer a list so I know how many items there are and whether
I want to skip it to jump directly to content.

reason I don't like links listed when they are short is to cut down on
unnecessary info and go directly to the more relevant content quickly.
screenreader users couldn't read the same amount of info as quickly as the
sighted. therefore, I don't want to be presented with to much unnecessary
info as this would slow me down.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Angela French" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "'WebAIM Discussion List'" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 11:22 PM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] evaluating accessibility with WCAG 2.0 (Angela French)


Awesome discussion. I'd like to know how screen reader users experience the
<p> tag. Is it transparent? Does it have semantic meaning? Do you expect
a certain content when you encounter one? I am a sighted user. But to me,
harkening back to early days of elementary school grammar, a paragraph is a
distinct portion of writing that contains a particular thought or idea, and
consists of at least one sentence, usually more. If a <p> tag has that same
meaning to a screen reader user, wouldn't a bunch of hyperlinked words
separated by a pipe be a nonsense sentence?