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

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From: Maraikayar Prem Nawaz
Date: May 13, 2015 11:51PM

Similar to Before and After Demo from W3C we used this page for a
Accessibility quiz program.
http://mpnkhan.github.io/challenge/site/home.html . May be this helps

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 9:57 PM, Jennifer Sutton < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> 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
>>
>
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