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Re: Do lack of labels for input forms affect users depending on "speech input"

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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Jul 13, 2016 12:17PM

to confurm that this only works if the lable is asosiated if it is not
then dragon users must fall back on the mouse grid witch is painfull

Lucia Greco
Web Accessibility Evangelist
IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
University of California, Berkeley
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On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Re Dragon Naturally speaking, and I may be speaking somewhat out of my
> hindquarters here.
> I believe users can tell Dragon to fill in or focus on field "x" where
> "x" is the text that appears to be the label for the field.
>
> If the text is programmatically designated as the label for that
> field, I expect that process would be more likely to work.
> Cheers
> -Birkir
>
>
> On 7/13/16, Lovely, Brian (CONT) < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> > ...and 5. Everybody else.
> >
> > It's very easy when developing to forget that you've read the specs,
> looked
> > at the designs, asked questions at meetings, but users have not. It's a
> > separate skill to be able to set aside what you know and then see what
> the
> > available information actually tells you. ...and to remember that not
> > everyone participates in the same culture, so not everyone understands
> the
> > same symbols and patterns. Is there really anything about a hamburger
> menu
> > that communicates its purpose? A user who is unfamiliar with the Internet
> > may not think to click it, or may be afraid to click on things to see
> what
> > happens.
> >
> > There is no "us and them" in accessibility. (unless I've been spelling it
> > incorrectly, which is always a possibility)
> >
> >
> > Brian Lovely
> > Digital Accessibility Team
> > <EMAIL REMOVED>
> >
> >
> >
> >