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From: Cheryl Kirkpatrick
Date: Oct 22, 2003 9:55AM

That is why I am looking for a library site that displays the skip navigation. I have
some government sites but, as I am speaking to librarians, I wanted to use library
sites. My objective in this presentation is to gently persuade these librarians to
include accessibility features in their Web sites. I thought that having a blind person
demonstrate how he uses library sites would have more of an impact on the audience than
me just talking. Next time I think that I will try to also have someone with a physical
disability to show that we do not only have to consider vision impairments.

I decided to take the "gently persuade" route because lecturing and trying to use the
hard hammer approach sure does not seem to be working in my state. I am also really
stressing that accessibility is good usability and helps all users.

OK, sermon over. :-)

Cheryl

Jon Gunderson wrote:

> The skip navigation is needed by more than screen reader users. People
> with physicaly disabilities using only the keyboard also would like to
> skip navigation bars. Hiding the skip navigation feature does not help people with
> physical disabilities.
>
> Jon Gunderson
> UIUC
>
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Zwack, Melanie wrote:
>
> >
> > Our site has a good example of skip navigation:
> > http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/statelocal/index.html
> >
> > If you mouse over to the right of the seal, you can see the skip navigation
> > (It's only 1 pixels wide sliver of the mast so it might be difficult to
> > see), and if you link on this it will bring you right below the buttons of
> > the main mast. This works well with a screen reader --
> >
> > By the way, if you call Jaws (Freedom Scientific), they also may have some
> > ideas for you --
> >
> > Melanie
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cheryl Kirkpatrick [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 11:08 AM
> > To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> > Subject: Re: good example
> >
> >
> > We are going to do both. Unfortunately, ones encountering problems are easy
> > to
> > find. I do have some good examples but have not found one that I think is
> > the
> > shining example. One thing I am looking for is a visual "skip navigation".
> > It
> > seems that even the good sites are hiding that.
> >
> > Cheryl
> >
> > Jeff Finlay wrote:
> >
> > > > At the South Carolina Library Association conference, I am
> > > > moderating a session on accessibility in which we will have a blind user
> > > > demonstrating JAWS. Can anyone recommend an especially good library Web
> > > > site to use for the demonstration?
> > >
> > > Did you want to use one that shows JAWS working well or encountering
> > > difficulties?
> > >
> > > Jeff
> > >
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> > Cheryl Kirkpatrick
> > Web Administrator
> > South Carolina State Library
> > http://www.state.sc.us/scsl/
> > Telephone: 803.734.5831
> >
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Cheryl Kirkpatrick
Web Administrator
South Carolina State Library
http://www.state.sc.us/scsl/
Telephone: 803.734.5831



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