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From: KP
Date: Mar 21, 2016 1:01PM

Quick reply. I shall consider more deeply is that a webpage may be totally accessible (ie it has semantic mark up, colour contrast etc) but is so badly designed it is unusable. Both users of accessible tech and mainstream users find it difficult/confusing to carry out the task.

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> On 22/03/2016, at 5:55 AM, Kelly Lupo < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> I did not want to hijack the tabindex thread, so I figured I'd start a new
> one... It was mentioned at one point that there was more of a usability
> issue than an accessibility one in one of the examples.
>
> I need to explicitly define the two for an unrelated project, but I find
> that I am having a hard time doing so without confusing myself (let alone
> the person reading I imagine!). How do ya'll explain this difference to
> someone who has little to no experience in web accessibility?
>
> I had started with the analogy of:
>
> - Being directed to a 404 - 'page not found' or having makes the content
> inaccessible (thus also unusable),
> - Whereas a page in a language you do not speak, and does not provide
> pictures or a translation widget, renders the page unusable because you can
> access the page - it is just harder to access the content (IE: you need a
> translator of some kind).
>
>
> ...And then I got confused by reading other sources which seemed to say the
> opposite. Affirmation or dissent and correction would be much appreciated!
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Kelly
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