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From: Mallory
Date: Jan 23, 2020 4:40AM

It would be ideal if at least the clickable areas could be keyboarded, and if the map would still work if zoomed.

That doesn't deal with totally-blind screen reader users but it does help a LOT of people with other disabilities (motor, low-vision).

That means named controls that are input-agnostic and an ability for the map to ensure text and borders on it can remain sharp (so using vectors. If using <canvas> then it would need to re-render new glyphs to keep them sharp, rather than just zooming the original image's text).

Then if it's difficult to use if you're totally-blind with a screen reader, your other options need to work well enough that a user can be like "okay, I'll search post codes" or find the table listing postcodes and do an in-browser search, etc.

This allows maximum choice for users.

cheers,
_mallory

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020, at 4:04 AM, Lucy GRECO wrote:
> hello: check out the highcharts map tool it does an excellent job of
> making the map accessible
> Lucia Greco
> Web Accessibility Evangelist
> IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
> University of California, Berkeley
> (510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
> http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
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> On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 4:26 AM Barry Hill < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> > Thanks, Patrick. I did think that it was unusual to simply ignore the
> > accessibility. The map is for mobile phone coverage down to individual
> > postcodes, so I can't see that the map itself can be made practically
> > accessible. However, they do have a postcode search facility that does the
> > same thing, so I told them that this would be fine, alternative means and
> > all that. So, with this alternative in mind, what do they do about the
> > map?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Barry
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >