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Re: blog content order

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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Jul 2, 2013 3:38PM

Jared said:
> I think the context and content of the links sufficiently off-sets them.
I agree with Jared. If there is some big worry, you could dump the links
elsewhere on the page, like before /body, and use CSS to position. While it
may confuse keyboard users, it gets around the context part.

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Ryan E. Benson


On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Jared Smith < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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
> > > >