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Re: Where Does The Idea Screen Reader Users Use Tab for Main Navigation Come From?

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From: Emily Ogle
Date: Oct 12, 2018 11:35AM

Certainly I encountered a lot of confusion when training people on the screen reader and said "we should test with and without tabbing." Blank looks. How else do screen readers get by then? That misconception about how screen readers user interact with content also leads to developers panicking that non-interactive content is being missed and adding *everything* to the tab order.

With software, though, where content is not opened within a browser, it becomes much harder to provide multiple ways of navigating.

> On Oct 12, 2018, at 12:23 PM, Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> I don't think this misconception arose from incorrect teaching by anyone. It came from people's failure to even attempt to learn, despite the existence of plenty of free and paid-for sources of information and training.
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