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Re: Infinite scrolling and accessibility

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From: Léonie Watson
Date: Jan 10, 2013 6:18AM

Ramya Sethuraman wrote:
"I am trying to understand what happens to screen readers when they
encounter infinite scrolling? For example, what happens to the virtual
buffer of Jaws when a user is reading a page and tabs and more content loads
at the bottom of the page? Does this interrupt what Jaws is reading to the
user?"

In my experience there is a slight pause whilst the virtual buffer updates
with the new content, but it isn't anything that really hinders the reading
experience too much.

The thing I find more irritating is not being able to search for content I
know to be there because it hasn't made it into the virtual buffer yet. For
example moving to an old entry on my facebook timeline.

Léonie.