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Re: how screen readers navigate by headline

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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Sep 2, 2011 1:09PM

Both JAWS and NVDA allows you to navigate a page via headings (h) and
landmarks (;). These are two different things. It may make sense to
put a heading after a landmark but not vis versa.

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Ryan E. Benson



On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Mary Stores < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> I use ARIA landmarks on the Google Search results pages, along with
> headings, to very easily find the content I'm looking for. It makes
> life so much easier.
>
> Mary
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> Quoting Alan Dyck < <EMAIL REMOVED> >:
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>> I am interested in the ARIA standard of html tags. It seems like ARIA is
>> supposed to help give the idea of the page at a glance. Can anyone comment
>> who actually uses it in their reader? Any good examples of sites using ARIA?
>>
>> I am new to the list so feel free to refer me to the archives.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Alan Dyck
>>
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