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From: Alan Zaitchik
Date: May 13, 2016 5:23PM

Thank you to all who responded. It was most helpful to get this advice.
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On 5/13/16, 5:40 PM, "Birkir R. Gunnarsson" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

>Yeap, 1.4.1, 1.3.3 is a very similar SC (it partly applies if you
>refer to a location on the screen), but use of color is 1.4.1
>I would not say something like "the only button on the page".
>Webpages are so dynamic that that info could change, (e.g. if you
>added a social sharing widget to the page), and people may forget to
>update the instructions.
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>On 5/13/16, Brandon Keith Biggs < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> Hello,
>> You could say something like "please click the only button on the page
>> which is green and on the top left of the screen".
>> This would tell a screen reader user to click the button, but chances
>>are
>> they already saw the button as they arrowed down through the page to
>>get to
>> the directions. If the button is labeled correctly, there should not
>>even
>> need to be instructions for the screen reader user.
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>;
>>
>> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 5:24 AM, Alan Zaitchik < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have been asked about the following wording that might be used on a
>>>web
>>> page:
>>> As you navigate through the case study, click the green "Click to
>>>listen
>>> to audio" button in the top left of the screen to listen to the
>>>exchange
>>> between Dr. Greene and Kelsey.
>>> There is only one button on the page with that label, and the mention
>>>of
>>> "green" and "top left of the screen" is to help the sighted user find
>>>the
>>> button, not to identify it in a list of multiple buttons.
>>> Is it adequate to identify the button by its label even though
>>>additional,
>>> visual descriptions are included?
>>> I realize that the button text doesn't include specifics - it doesn't
>>>say
>>> "Click to listen to the exchange between Dr. Greene and Kelsey" even
>>> though
>>> I understand that this would be more desirable, but we may not have
>>> control
>>> over the dynamic generation of the link text at this late point in the
>>> project, just over the text of the instructions on the page. So my
>>> question
>>> right now is focused on the text of the instructions.
>>> Thanks for your advice.
>>> A
>>>
>>> >>> >>> >>> >>>
>> >> >> >> >>
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