By: SBL Legal transcription services

SBL Legal transcription services — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:42:38 +0000

Helpful post…
Regards,
SBL Legal Transcription services

By: Mathias Kretschek

Mathias Kretschek — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:32:13 +0000

Hi! I’ve been listening to you podcast (which is great, btw) for quite a while now but forgot that you also have a blog!
Shouldn’t “add proper labels for form elements” be in your list? I’m not an accessibility expert (yet) but I’ve heard in an interview with a blind web user, that this is a major barrier for screen reader users, since almost every web site uses forms at some point.
Keep up with the good work!

By: Richard Morton - Accessible Web

Richard Morton - Accessible Web — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:21:35 +0000

Great list Paul, and as you say these are not too hard to implement. One thing that I would like to see more of is clients asking for these things as part of their requirements, there is still a great lack of awareness.
In terms of images, it isn’t always clear cut whether an image is informational or decorative. For example a photograph on a web page could contain important information within it or it could just be a nice picture. If it is the latter would describing it add value to a visually impaired or blind person accessing the site through a screen reader? It might do in some contexts for example a photography gallery.
I don’t think that a title attribute would help for links as although screen reader software can be setup to access it, most users don’t so would miss that information. The other important point about links is that the text needs to be different for different target pages. Often on complex site testing I see multiple “help” links for example that are specific to different parts of the page, so visually it is obvious what the context is but read out in a list it becomes fairly useless.
Hope this adds to your discussion. I’ve only recently started listening to the Podcasts (which are great by the way, and much more engaging than some of the other web podcasts I have heard), and I am slowly going through them backwards which is an interesting experience.
Richard Morton

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