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Re: Screen Reader Usable Baseball Standings

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From: JR Accessibility
Date: May 8, 2018 12:47PM

I wonder if a different approach to baseball standings, other than simply
reading the tabular data, would be more appropriate.

If you were sitting across the table from me and I wanted to explain the
American League East standings and win loss records to you, I would not say
the following:

"OK, remember the order of teams I'm going to tell you. Red Sox, Yankees,
Blue Jays, Rays, Orioles. Their win loss records are 25 and 9, 24 and 10,
19 and 16, 15 and 17, 8 and 26. You got all that? You surely remember the
Yankees' win loss record now, right?"

No. Of course I wouldn't say that. That would be unhelpful.

What I would say is something like the following:

"The Red Sox are in first place in the American League East with a record
of 25 and 9. Yankees in second place, 24 and 10. Blue Jays in third place,
19 and 16. Rays in fourth place, 15 and 17. Orioles in fifth place, 8 and
26."

This would be a much more natural way to convey the information in spoken
form.