[WEB4LIB] Re: Jaws Web Page readers' comments?

[Lee Jaffe]

We just had a similar demonstration hosted by
our campus Web coordinators group and arranged
by the campus ADA coordinator.  A blind user,
who is also a tech for a local ISP, run his
reader-based system at the same as we looked
at the same pages.  Again, an "eye-opening"
experience.  Even those who thought they knew
everything they needed to know about accessibility
issues were surprised at what they learned.  One
nice feature of the demo is that the presenters
had worked out a list of bad and good practices
in advance and selected sites which highlighted
these practices.  A summary of the presentation
can be found at:
http://www2.soe.ucsc.edu/web-coord/archives/000008.html

-- Lee Jaffe, UC Santa Cruz

Quoting Richard Wiggins <rich at richardwiggins.com>:

> Forgive the late reply to this, but recently I arranged a
> demonstration with
> Michael Hudson, who heads the Resource Center for Persons
> with Disabilities
> at Michigan State.  Mike is severely visually impaired
> and has used talker
> technology since 1986.  He uses JAWS and finds it the
> best tool to meet his
> needs.
> 
> We had about 20 folks who navigate visually observing as
> Mike navigated a
> set of university sites (including some of our own)
> demonstrating how things
> work -- and don't work -- for him as he used JAWS.
> 
> It was quite literally eye-opening for all involved.  I
> strongly suggest to
> anyone who is trying to build accessible pages that they
> do a similar
> exercise.  WATCH as someone uses talker technology to
> navigate.  You can't
> appreciate all the subtleties by running Bobby.
> 
> Mike runs the talker at 55% of possible speed.  No one in
> the room could
> follow at that rate.  He dialed it down to 35% and the
> rest of us were then
> able to follow.  :-)
> 
> /rich





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