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Re: Indicating primar and secondary action links to screen readers

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Sep 6, 2016 2:48PM

Imagine you have a page where users can read about an email offer
list. The page includes a couple of links and some text, but the
"register for our mailing list" link is visually formatted to stand
out as the primary action.
It is assigned a CSS class such as "primary action" or similar that
makes it look box like (almost button like).
Traditionally I haven't even thought of communicating this info in any
way, if the link has accessible text and is in a content location that
makes sense, and I don't think my stance on this has necessary
changed.
But when visual styling is used to assign priority to links on a page,
well, it is tricky to figure out if that info is important enough to
look for a text alterantive.
Cheers



On 9/6/16, Jim Homme < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hi Birkir,
> We try to advocate for as little off-screen content as possible here. Our
> view is that any site should try to make an equivalent experience for as
> wide as possible audience of people with disabilities. If you create
> off-screen controls, for example, people with motor disabilities who have
> site might tab onto them and get confused when focus disappears, and the
> same for people with inteellectual disabilities.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
>
>
> =========> Jim Homme,
> Accessibility Consultant,
> Bender HighTest Accessibility Team
> Bender Consulting Services, Inc.,
> 412-787-8567,
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
> http://www.benderconsult.com/our%20services/hightest-accessible-technology-solutions
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