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From: Jared Smith
Date: Jul 2, 2013 7:46AM

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Bourne, Sarah (ITD) wrote:

> Our concern is that this may be confusing because screen readers will read it first, before the title of the blog, and they're not relevant to the blog itself.

If this isn't a concern for sighted users, I wouldn't think it would
be an issue for screen reader users. I think the context and content
of the links sufficiently off-sets them.

> Or are we worrying too much?

Probably. User testing might answer this more definitively, but I
don't think I'd do anything special to fix a problem that probably
doesn't exist... or if it does exist, it probably exists for everyone,
so there's no need for a special screen reader-only fix.

Jared