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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jan 23, 2013 2:52PM

Hey there, yea wise people.

Me and my colleague have been conducting a research on screen reader
users and structural semantics (do users take advantage of things such
as landmarks, headings, or correct table structure and labelling).
We have around 130 responses so far. We will discuss the findings at
CSUN, and on a website, the link to which I will of course post here
when it is ready.
I want to find an example of 2 to 3 websites, ideally WCAG 2.0 AA (or
similar) certified, with lots of content, use them as test sites to
compare the relative ease with which users can locate content with
different approaches and different screen readers.

I also want to find an example of an accessible table with a lot of data.

Needless to say, I can go out and Google for both of these things, no
problem (except for the WCAG certified part), but I figured this might
be a good venue, if someone is developing or has certified a website
for accessibility.
Contact me on or off-list.
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I think the outcome of the research will be both interesting and
relevant to our work to make a good thing even better, by addressing
the user training and education side of WCAG compliance. We suspect
that most users may not understand, or be aware of things such as
landmarks and heading navigation. Unlike alt text on images or using
correct html structures for the task, which are almost transparent to
the end users, being smart about how we set up an outline for a
webpage requires the users to have some training and understanding of
how they can take advantage of that work.
We are hoping to find out the truth about the current situation
through our survey, and may be respond to it by setting up short, but
standardized, descriptions of how users can navigate within a page and
have the page described using their screen reader of choice. More on
all of this later, of course.


Cheers
-B