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Re: Accessible pagination?

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From: Tim Harshbarger
Date: Nov 6, 2017 6:41AM

Just to offer another perspective, I do not think that this pattern is too verbose or problematic as a screen reader user. For me, too verbose is something like a group label for radio buttons that is a paragraph long. That tends to feel verbose. However, I know other screen reader users might feel differently.

My thought is that if you follow this pattern, someone using a screen reader would clearly get the idea that this part of the page is the pagination. I also think you could use only parts of this pattern and end up with something that might be accessible as well, but depending on what you do it might not be as clear to screen reader users who don't spend their days reviewing, discussing, and testing user interfaces like I do.

This is one of those situations where being able to test with real end users would help. You could find out if there are any major differences between patterns.