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From: Tomlins Diane
Date: May 4, 2017 10:19AM

I was sent this example of an e-magazine type browser app: http://xeroxigen5press.freeflowdp.com/xeroxigen5press/9364895993167985?pg=NaN#pgNaN , and asked to review it for accessibility. The vendor claims it's accessible.. but from what I found testing with KB and NVDA, well, IMO it leaves a lot to be desired - You can navigate it, but it's not a good experience. Using just a kb, it is painfully difficult to navigate. NVDA is only marginally better, it is still tedious to navigate. If I had to try to use this, I think I'd give up in frustration before getting past the first page, let alone getting through the whole thing! If you zoom in to read the text, then you get horizontal scrolling and you can't scroll using the kb. If you finally get to the 'Open Article' tab/link, it opens a modal-type window that is at least readable, but there's nothing to indicate that's what you need to do. With NVDA (I don't have JAWS), if you don't use the Open Article functionality, then these pages are just all images.

Anyone have any experience with these types of applications?? Am I being overly critical?

Our folks want to use this for a newsletter to go out to the public. :-/

Thanks in advance for your thoughts and input.

Diane R Tomlins
HCA IT&S | Digital Media
Accessibility SME