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From: TRAUTWEIN_PAUL
Date: Apr 7, 2016 3:06PM

Thanks for the response, Dave,

I am not an experienced JAWS user, but we were able to find someone who
was, and who was kind enough to test the different options.

When she tested the navigation with the fly away menus, (the second
choice) she was able to find the page we asked her to look for within
seconds. She also just did some browsing, based on her own interests and
curiosity, without any problems. She managed to jump in and out of a link
list where she could start typing in letters and jump to specifics in the
sub-navigation. I was able to do the same with VoiceOver on a Mac,
although the keyboard interface is a bit clunkier than JAWS. That could
also be due to my lack of experience.

I know that the preferred method is the first choice, (with the form
containers) but I was contending with designers who wanted a cleaner
visual look and feel and didn¹t like the ³go² buttons.

For anyone interested, we changed the URLs once we were satisfied with our
test results. Below are the URLs again so you can compare:

http://www2.smc.edu/schedules/2016/spring/index.html (our older navigation
system)

http://www2.smc.edu/schedules/2016/summer/index.html (our newer navigation
system)

Thanks again.
Paul



Paul Trautwein | Web Coordinator
Santa Monica College | Marketing Department
1900 Pico Blvd. Santa Monica CA 90405
310.434.4204 | www.smc.edu






On 3/30/16, 2:29 PM, "Andrews, David B (DEED)"
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>As a Jaws user I liked the first choice the best, what I should do, and
>where I was was clear.
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