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Re: Activating controls with hidden accessible names using speech recognition

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From: Robert Fentress
Date: Feb 10, 2016 7:15AM

All good points. However, I can hear the person whose site I'm
evaluating saying something like, "We'll, my application is very
complex and making these things into icons allows me to fit more
functionality into a limited space, thus making it so users do not
have to spend a lot of time rooting through separate pages to get to
the functionality they need. The icons are more easily recognizable
at a glance than text labels would be and thus reduce the cognitive
load, once you are familiar with what they mean."

I like the idea of having a way of enabling text labels if desired.
However, I have a hard time imagining how that could happen without a
major interface redesign at this point.

Oh well, I guess I just need to make them aware of the issues and
provide possible solutions. It's up to them figure out how (or if)
they can implement them given their resources.

There is also the question of at what point this becomes a user agent
responsibility. I mean, the information is there and I'd argue speech
control software should provide the option to make it available
visually. If every label must be visible to everyone all the time,
what is the point of things like aria-label and chained ids for
aria-labelledby?

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Jonathan Avila
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> Robert, these are important considerations that I discuss in a blog article on the topic titled Considerations for Testing with Speech Recognition Software such as Dragon Naturally Speaking that I authored in 2014 http://www.ssbbartgroup.com/blog/considerations-testing-speech-recognition-software-dragon-naturally-speaking/
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