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Re: ARIA difficult for non-screenreader users?

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From: Léonie Watson
Date: May 13, 2013 9:20AM

Alastair Campbell wrote:
" However, testing with non-screenreader keyboard users indicates this is
not a known interaction. People tab to the first label, then tab past,
assuming that the other labels should be links they can select

It is worse for people using Voice Recognition, because they would say
something like "click tab 2", which would not be a selectable link.."

Out of curiosity, what happened then? Did they figure it out or give up?
Interested in the learning curve involved in figuring out these
interactions, as opposed to any other interaction (all of which were
presumably alien at some point).



Léonie.