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Re: good example

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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
> >
> >