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Re: Should a web site look and read the same

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From: Lucy Greco
Date: May 6, 2013 1:01PM

Hello:
The reason to try your best to make a site look and sound the same is
that when a person is calling tech support or working with a sited friend
to use the site if the blind user can't find what the sited person is
referring to i.e. the go button and it turns out the go button is a link
not a button and or is labeled submit not go. Yes I have seen this. it's
very easy to get lost and frustrated. It is useful to add off screen text
but only to indicate things that might not be perceived in the audio
layout if it can't be seen. I like using off screen text for example for
adding the word required to a field label because I and many other screen
reader users do not have punctuation spoken and might miss the * that
sited users see and recognizes. I hope this helps Lucy

Lucia Greco
Web Access Analyst
IST-Campus Technology Services
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
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