WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: accessibility of accessibility checking tools

for

From: Olaf Drümmer
Date: Dec 23, 2015 5:26PM

Hi Deborah,

I know all of that (by now).

Anyway - everyone feel free to consider the implications of what I am saying or disregard it altogether. On average I was much more motivated than the typical manager or developer, but still had my day job (which does not have its focus on accessibility). It might be that I am not the brightest kid on the block and took longer to get acquainted with available options. But my gut feeling is that 99% of managers and developers interested in principle (through intrinsic or extrinsic motivation….) will give up before they "get there". Feel free to blame them for their lack of commitment or their laziness or what else, but that will unfortunately not bring down the percentage.

Just my 2 cents…

Olaf

> On 24.12.2015, at 00:57, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
>
> Olaf,
>
> Some of these features do exist.
>
>> What would be extremely useful are features that help a sighted user to understand what's going on while using AT (e.g. by highlighting on screen what is currently being presented by text to speech or the Braille display).
>
> In NVDA, for example, the speech viewer is hugely useful for sighted users (especially as understanding screne reader inflections is a learned process, and the free voices aren't that great for newbies). Additionally, there are add-ons such as "focus highlight," which highlights the currently focused text; it's not in the core, but it is easy to find and install to anyone willing to make a modicum of effort. There are well documented shortcuts which will report what a particular key combination would do.
>
> VoiceOver's rotor appears visually on the screen, so a sighted user can easily flip through the possible options and see what can be discovered.
>
> It takes some effort, but then, there's a paradigm shift for sighted users, which will take practice no matter what.
>
> Deborah
> > > >