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From: J Vine
Date: Mar 1, 2016 6:48PM

Hello all,

We are looking at vendor services for searching articles in an academic library. One of the options is a federated search, which means that the service goes out and searches several sources at once, and fills in the results as the sources respond.

There are some examples here: http://www.deepwebtech.com/...product-trial/try-it-now/ When you do a search, the results page shows articles from the first few sources, then adds tabs and updates counts as sources respond, and eventually pops up a dialog giving the total number found, with the option to refresh the result list to show all articles.

There are all kinds of issues with the results pages - document structure, alt text, form labels, mostly easy to fix. What I'm wondering about is how challenging it would be to make the dynamic updating in multiple locations really usable for a screen reader.

Is anyone aware of a site that does something like this effectively? (I mean the dynamic updating, in any context.)

Thanks,

Jennifer Vine
UX Designer
Digital Library Systems & Services
Stanford University Libraries