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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jan 10, 2013 7:56AM

www.twitter.com is an example of the infinite scrolling, correct?
I use it with Jaws, and I just can keep reading messages forever
seemingly, though, as previously described, with slight pauses when
the virtual buffer is updated.
For Twitter I actually will come out and say I like it. Rather than
having to click "more" and refresh the page with new content every 30
Tweets or whatever, I can just keep reading until I am done, this is
purely from a screen reader user perspective, not that I am
recommending the practice.
I have encountered same issues as described regarding the search with
either the screen reader's or browser's "find" functions.


On 1/10/13, Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> On 10/01/2013 13:18, Léonie Watson wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Yup, that's a general usability problem I have with the approach as well
> (just using the browser, not screenreader)
>
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