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Re: ARIA difficult for non-screenreader users?

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From: Alastair Campbell
Date: May 13, 2013 11:32AM

Bryan Garaventa wrote:

> It does mean that pressure needs to be put on the makers of Dragon to add
> basic support for ARIA.
>

I agree, and that is probably the tip of the iceberg. Another example might
be live regions, where screen magnifier users should also be notified
(visually) about things happening outside of their focus.


adding arrow support for ARIA Tabs combined with making all such elements
> tabbable at the same time, will make it impossible for screen reader users
> to determine the level of nested tab
> groups when tabbing if present, since it breaks the metaphor.
>

The scenario here does not involve nested tabs, so that shouldn't be an
issue. (I might have tripped over an IE bug in my example though, I'm not
saying that's ideal.)

The main aim with using ARIA for those was to prevent the experience for
screen reader users from being "I've clicked a link, why has nothing
happened?", as there is no relationship between the links and the panels
without ARIA.

Thanks,

-Alastair