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From: Jim Homme
Date: Sep 6, 2016 3:11PM

Hi,
If I understand what you are saing, then this might lend itself to headings and sub-headings, as in h2 and h3, lists and nested lists, or some other autoatically-speaking structure that developers don't have to invent.

Jim


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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Indicating primar and secondary action links to screen readers

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,
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> http://www.benderconsult.com/our%20services/hightest-accessible-techno
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Birkir R. Gunnarsson
> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2016 4:02 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Subject: [WebAIM] Indicating primar and secondary action links to
> screen readers
>
> Hi gang
>
> I am contemplating a curious question from my team.
>
> They are wondering if they should use visually hidden texton links and
> buttons that are visually indicated as the primary and secondary
> actions on webpages.
> Basically primary action (or call to action) links or buttons
> (normally one per webpage) get unique visual emphasis via CSS, ditto
> with secondary actions.
> There is no HTML element or ARIA attribute to provide equivalent
> functionality programmatically (perhaps the aria-roledescription could
> be used for this purpose).
> Bottomline:
> 1. Is this information important enough so that it should be provided
> textually or programmatically? I have never made such a call in my
> findings, and I have never seen it done on websites I have audited,
> but it is a fact that this info could be important or at least useful on some pages.
> 2. If it is provided, is there a technique better than good old screen
> reader text to do so?
> I am not a fan of using heading tags to do this, I think it is not
> correct use of headings.
>
> Cheers
> -B
>
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