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From: Robert Fentress
Date: Aug 1, 2018 10:06AM

Any kind of icon button is a challenge in that regard. I planned to have
an accessible name and tooltip that would appear on focus or hover, but
that doesn't really help speech recognition users so much, unless they do
"Press tab" a million times, or use mouse grid. Of course, they could say
"click button" and then choose the number that appeared over this
particular button. Not ideal, but I'd think that'd be the way to handle
that circumstance (in Dragon and Windows Speech Recognition anyway). This
kind of speech recognition and control software really needs a feature that
displays the accessible name for all elements on the page, or maybe all
elements of a certain type like buttons or images. Having visual labels
for icon buttons is not always possible in a design.

As far as voice control on mobile devices, I know Google had a beta test of
an Android app that let you control everything on the screen with your
voice, and I think it may have even had text-to-speech incorporated in it
as well. Unfortunately, it was a limited release and I was too late to
sign up to test the app by the time I learned of it. Can't wait until that
get's released though! Anyone else know anything about that?

On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 10:58 AM Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> I don't think screen reader users are a problem. I would probably design
> the feature so they always hear all the links and are not even aware of the
> expand / collapse status.
>
> I would be more concerned about how someone using voice recognition
> software would interact with it, although that's probably an issue for the
> future because there currently seems to be just about zero support for web
> browsing using voice control on mobile devices, either natively or via an
> app. If anyone knows any differently, I would be very interested to hear
> what is available. I have never encountered voice recognition software that
> reveals the accessible name to the user, so it would not be possible to
> interact with the "dot dot dot" link unless the accessible name is obvious.
>
> Steve Green
> Managing Director
> Test Partners Ltd
>
>
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