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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Feb 14, 2013 9:13AM

Hey gang

For color contrast, I know of the BX toolbox for Jaws, which I am
experimenting with, but I was wondering if there is some other way to
check color contrast on a webpage as a blind user.
I was also wondering if there is a way for me as a screen reader user
to test whether the keyboard focus indicator (outline) is vissible or
not on a webpage.
I usually ask a sighted colleague to do these checks for me, it is
quite quick for them, but I'd like to do as much checking of this as
possible independently.

Finally, I was wondering if it were possible to include a description
of a webpage and how it relates to an ARIA role, may be put it on a
website somewhere.
For instance, I see a long long list of links and I suspect this is an
example of RWD/tabbed browsing, but I'd like to know a bit what it
would look like visually, so I could suggest the ARIA tabbed interface
solution.
Same with flyout menus, carousels, tree controls etc.
(for many of these things the look seems obvious to me, such as trees,
but if I could ask a lay person to look at a site or part of a site,
tell me what it looks like and then I could relay that to an ARIA
solution, it would be great).
This is probably impossible, but I was just wondering about it.
Cheers
-B