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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Aug 16, 2012 8:27AM

Well, one of the problems I have always had with screen readers, and
something I feel is somewhat their responsibility, is to not offer the
user some sort of page description or exploration mode consistent with
the visual layout.
I have not done much programming in this area, but I would imagine the
SR could interpret this information and present it to the user, the
layout, number of columns etc. Many blind users I meet say they're not
interested, and they don't care, but I feel this is important info,
because we often have to use the pages with sighted colleagues, or the
sighted world in general (customer service etc).


On 8/16/12, Ramya Sethuraman < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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 ?
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> 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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