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Re: please test expanding content areas

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From: Patrick Burke
Date: Feb 7, 2012 3:45PM

At 02:21 PM 2/7/2012, Angela French wrote:
>Patrick,
>I'm a little confused about your statement "...have to explore below
>the heading on your own". Wouldn't you normally look beyond a
>heading to see the subsequent content regardless of whether it was
>initially hidden? What am I missing?

Without some clue that the heading/link behaves this way, maybe not.

Perhaps I would read through the whole page once, not "clicking" on
anything. Then I might navigate back by heading, going to the
headings that were reported as links ("Sounds interesting!..."), &
then try hitting Enter or Space. Hearing no indication that these
links were doing anything, I might give up on the page.

The main point being, if there is no indication (focus change etc)
that new content has appeared, screen reader users may not find it,
even if it's sitting "right there!". This may change as people get
more accustomed to dynamic content, "links" not actually being links
to new pages, etc. But for the time being we need some kind of tip-off.

Hope that's clearer,
>Patrick


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