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From: Abby Kingman
Date: Oct 3, 2019 8:24AM

I am interested in this as well. Some designers like to have a very sparse
page layout, where essentially the structure of the page is implied
visually. A sighted user will know they are scanning from one section to
another on the page because the nature of the content changes. But I have
concerns about whether this is difficult for non-sighted users.

For example, how do AT users know that they are moving to a section of the
page that contains a group of filters that can be used to restrict the
information in the content listing below? After the h1 there is a label for
a dropdown list, then another and another - but why? have considered
adding hidden headers for the filter area and listing area, but I don't
know for sure that it is helpful. Maybe wrapping those areas with tags and
creating a landmark would be cleaner, but I think many users don't rely
heavily on landmarks. And maybe it is all more obvious than I think, so
neither of those are needed.

I am looking forward to having some AT user testing done on these pages
soon. Of course that will give me information on what that individual user
prefers, but it's better than no insight at all.

Abby

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Abby Kingman, CPACC

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