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From: Jeevan Reddy
Date: Apr 21, 2011 1:54AM

Hello Grignon,
I appreciate your thought, but remember accessibility is not only for
Screen reader users. Why you need so many jumpings?
As our other experts said, i suggest to use a "discription" link at end of
each graph or chart, once the user click on description, it'll take you to
the description in the same page, where two "back" links one to resumed
position and another to top take you to the resumed position and top
respectively.
This will benefit:
1 A screen reader user can locate the description of the graph or chart
easily.
2 A cognitive user can look the description of the chart or graph easily.
3 A motor impaired user can locate descriptions with minimal keystrokes if
he/she needed.
4 Benefits every one by reducing document scrolling.

Best Regards,

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Will Grignon < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> Why not create the master document and a description document? The blind
> user can read the master and, when he/she encounters a described graphic,
> ALT+TAB to the description document to get the full description, then
> ALT+TAB back to the master to resume reading. I am a blind screen reader
> user and it's a pain to jump to the back of a document to find an endnote
> then jump back to where I had left off, but it is relatively easy to read a
> master document, jump over to a secondary document, then jump back to the
> master at the point I had left it to read the secondary document.
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