Sent by SantaKlauss on 3 November 2003 13:01
Laurence Robb wrote:
> Hi, now I have passed the first hurdle with
> http://robbweb.users.btopenworld.com/, can anyone tell me about audio?
> Have you ever used it?
> Here is a very noisy sample, who and where are Paul, Harry and Betty? Is my
> site going to talk if I stick this in? It would be ideal for accessibility
> and I would revamp MSFirst...http://www.digitalbristol.org/members/msfirst/:
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Hi Laurence,
hope to not going too much beyond the purpose of the list, since I'm quite
new here. But I sincerely think that every person interested in web design should
put a look over accessibility questions. I'm interesting in accessibility since two weeks
(I know, it's very few time, I should have done before, but it's never too late).
I really would like to test your page with a screen reader that support aural too,
but I guess there isn't any freeware. I' m currently working with the 30-days trial
of IBM Home Page Reader http://www-3.ibm.com/able/solution_offerings/hpr.html
and the freeware Simply Web 2000 http://www.econointl.com/sw/ .
For now, I think to have understand the principles on what relies screen readers:
WISIWIR "what I see is what I read": the page is rendered visually by the screen
reader (often thank to the Internet Explorer engine) and then pronounced.
The fact is that css are somehow involved in the process:
<p style="display: none">this won't be pronounced by a screen reader</p>
And won't be involved from this point of view:
<div style="position: relative;height: 300px">
<p style="posion: absolute;bottom: 0">Bottom of the div</p>
<p style="posion: absolute;top: 0">Top of the div</p>
</div>
A screen reader probably will read first the bottom div, because it will read the page
following the html code order and not the css top-bottom disposition of the displayed
page. These are just two hints, looking for staying in-topics inside the list.
If you haven't read it yet, I suggest you to visit www.diveintoaccessibility.org and
trying to navigate your website with HPR and your monitor turned off.
HTH,
SantaKlauss
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