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Re: training sr users for the modern web (wasIntuitiveness of JAWS jump to tabpanel shortcut for ARIA Tabs in FF??

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From: Jennison Mark Asuncion
Date: Jul 4, 2014 3:45PM

On 7/4/14, Léonie Watson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Discovery is possibly the biggest challenge. It isn't helped by the fact
> that little changed on the web for a long time, so people rarely had to
> figure out new forms of interaction. Screen readers don't explain how to
> use
> links for example.

Léonie,

Your comment gave me an opportunity to raise an issue that I've been
informally discussing with folk for a while now - while we are all
implementing the best solutions possible to make the modern web
accessible, I am convinced that there exists a training gap for the
average screen reader users (who are not on this list, monitoring
twitter, etc.) when it comes to interacting with web apps and their
associated design patterns.

I would be curious to hear from anyone who conducts screen reader
training to blind end-users about this topic.

Jennison