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Re: Is this gallery accessible to screenreader users?

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From: Jeevan Reddy
Date: Jul 22, 2011 1:24AM

Hi loremy,
The gallery is nice, well operable by keyboard.
when i access the gallery with my NVDA screen Reader and Firefox 3.6, i
found the following observations
The images are not links or buttons, the screen reader user doesn't know
it's clickable even he/she clicks on those.
if you want to make it accessible to all, please use the clickable images as
links!.
if you want make it accessible to specific to screen reader users, Use ARIA
mark up!

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Loremy < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Could anybody please tell me if the gallery on the page
> linked below is accessible to the screenreader users among you?
>
> Before you head over to the page,
> (URL is http://finnrudolph.de/ImageFlow/Introduction )
>
> here is some info for you first:
>
> The page has three main parts --
> 1. Einleitung (an introduction in German).
> 2. Introduction (the same introduction in English), and
> 3. The demo of the gallery, consisting of 10 images.
>
> All three parts can be reached via the headings list of the
> Firefox screenreader plug-in "Fangs" that I am testing with.
>
> The ALT text for the images is simply "image 1", "image 2" etc.,
> so not informative at all, but the ALT text can be easily changed.
> Please note that images 8 and 9 are mistakenly switched
> in the demo.
>
> Any comments will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you very much for any feedback!
>
> Here's the link again:
>
> http://finnrudolph.de/ImageFlow/Introduction
>
> Loremy
>
>