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From: Ramya Sethuraman
Date: Aug 16, 2012 8:23AM

Do just the words 'left' and 'right' mean non-conformance? Even for a
screen reader user, they understand left and right...isn't the problem when
instructions are like 'Select the button next to the 3rd heading' etc ?


On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Barry Hill < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I thought it failed, but wasn't sure if I was just being pedantic. There
> are
> several things wrong with the new local government website that I feel I
> should point out to them. Another example of the visual location came on
> their 'Accessibility' page:
>
> "In the right-hand columnn of each page of this site are two toggle buttons
> which allow the re-sizing of the text on that page. Click on the "A+"
> button
> to increase the text size and the "A-" button to decrease the size."
>
> Instead of such visual location descriptions, what should be used? Perhaps
> a
> same page link?
>
> I do think that the reason why it fails is that it used three automated
> accessibility checkers to validate tripple A with W3C 1.0. They don't
> appear to have done any user testing. I also think they should have gone
> for 2.0 being a new site.
>
> Cheers
>
> Barry
>
>
> > > >



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