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Re: Figures and Captions and Alt-text oh my...

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From: glen walker
Date: May 7, 2018 9:59AM

I agree the user experience would be worse, and the screen is intended for
the person that needs it and not the developer, but it also gives a
developer a false sense of accomplishment if their code sounds good. For
example, jaws will try to find a label for an input field even if the
developer didn't code one. That's bad for the developer but good for the
end user. Of course, a11y testing should be done on a variety of platforms
but there are unfortunately many cases of a quick test and people think
they're good.

Glen

On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 3:40 AM, Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Professional-grade screen readers have always used heuristics to clean up
> bad design - it's one of the key things that sets them apart from more
> basic screen readers. The user experience would be far worse if they did
> nothing more than present the information that has been coded.
>
> Steve Green
> Managing Director
> Test Partners Ltd
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