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Date: Jan 24, 2014 9:42AM

Hi Sailesh,
Nice to know about opera support. I'll try that out. Thank you for sharing.

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> On 24-Jan-2014, at 19:30, Sailesh Panchang < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Hello Srinivasu,
> At least one browser (Opera) did permit heading navigation from the
> keyboard ... I suppose that is more robust now ... no personal
> experience there.
> My responses are in the context of the thought in the first email.
> And in that context I said that SRs do allow one to work with speech off.
> Sure one can have a user agent that allows keyboard navigation in a
> manner that is as robust as SRs allow with no speech funtctionality at
> all.
> Sailesh
>
>
>> On 1/24/14, <EMAIL REMOVED> < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> Sailesh,
>> While I agree that's a solution, I'm unsure if a general keyboard only user
>> would aware of this. In fact why would they even think of a screen reader?
>> Since we are all in the accessibility industry, we could think of cross
>> disability and aware of AT features across.
>>
>> Also, I'm not sure if screen reader vendors ever document with keywords of
>> other disabilities.
>>
>> Further, all they would need is a quick navigation feature and why would
>> they need to install a screen reader that require investment of more space.
>>
>>
>> Can we think of a plugin that could just turn on quick navigation feature by
>> pressing an access key?
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Srinivasu Chakravarthula | PayPal | @csrinivasu
>> Sent from my iPhone 5C
>>
>>> On 24-Jan-2014, at 16:33, Sailesh Panchang < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Speech off has been built into SRs for the same reason for a long time
>>> now.
>>> For some aspects, if visual cursor tracking does not work as intended,
>>> that's a bug to be fixed.
>>> But overall it is the solution you were hoping for as per your first
>>> email.
>>> Thanks and regards,
>>> Sailesh
>>>
>>>> On 1/23/14, Don Mauck < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>>> I understand that as screen reader myself, however, I'm not convinced
>>>> that
>>>> with speech off, the visual cursor would track correctly. I'll half to
>>>> ask
>>>> some of my visual friends.
>>>>