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Re: Need URL of a page that fails a screen reader test miserably

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From: Jennifer Sutton
Date: May 13, 2015 10:27AM

There are tons of videos that demo screen readers, if that's what you mean.

But please, please don't just focus on screen reader users. Good Web
writing is for everyone!

I think we've had this kind of a discussion a few times, re. demos of
people using assistive tech., but here is a link to a collection of
screen reader demos, below my name, much as it's a pet peeve of mine
that screen reader use is overly emphasized in many trainings.
.

Too often, what people come away with is:
"Oo, look at the new shiny screen reader..."
And then, we get sighted people trying to test with screen readers,
when they've never seen a blind person (much less several), use
one? Not a good idea, in my experience.
And I speak as a screen reader user, myself.

And yes, I have ideas about better ways, even in terms of how sighted
people need better/visual/different tools to test ARIA -- anyone got
a line on a big pot of cash?


Stepping off of my soap box, but this is an ongoing trend -- even
here on this list, there are too often questions about how screen
readers speak things when, in my opinion, that's not as important as
a lot of other things that devs and content creators have a lot more
control over.

Jennifer

http://alistairduggin.co.uk/blog/screenreader-resources/

At 08:08 AM 5/13/2015, you wrote:
>Jennifer,
>These are most awesome resources! Thank you so much; these should
>really help flush out our training. I'd sure love to find some
>pages that we can have our students hear read so they can really get
>the impact.
>
>Angela