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From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Jan 10, 2013 9:24AM

As a non-screen reader user, I wonder how infinite scroll affects users of
the new search engine, www.DuckDuckGo.com, which uses infinite scrolling on
its search engine results pages (SERP).

I prefer Duck Duck Go over Google and Yahoo because I don't have to click
links at the bottom of the page to view more results. It's faster for me to
continue scrolling through a long list of potential results.

But I'm interested in hearing how this affects screen reader users.

And if you haven't heard about Duck Duck Go, it's created by an independent
developer who doesn't track your clicks or search history, so it's a better
option for those concerned about privacy and data. Their details:
http://donttrack.us/ (I don't see Alt-text or null tags on the graphics, but
they're only visual puns on the text, which succinctly says it all.)

- Bevi Chagnon
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