Tell Webaim you still use Speakup!

[Janina Sajka]

Landmarks are a concept defined in ARIA, and independently supported by
HTML 5. They will prove really useful when support catches up. For
instance, consider a page with three chunks of content denoted by
landmarks: Nav Bar; Main page content; Footer. A capable browser might
allow you to autohide the Nav bar and the footer, thus reducing the
clutter of what you would need to read through.

I suspect Webaim are a bit premature to base much on Landmarks just yet,
though.

Janina

Kyle writes:
> I'm actually glad you mentioned Speakup and Lynx. As a matter of fact, I
> submitted a rather detailed comment at the end of my survey not only
> mentioning Orca, but letting their staff know that the way I test my own
> hand-coded websites for accessibility is by first testing them in Lynx,
> Links and w3m with both Speakup and Orca. If all this stuff works, I
> know my website is accessible to pretty much everyone, and I have lost
> very little time in the process of building the website. SO I don't have
> areas and landmarks, whatever those are, and I don't have all this
> strange hidden text, so what the screen reader sees and what the end
> user with eyeballs sees are extremely similar. So what, it works for
> everyone, and I don't use those landmarks and regions the survey asked
> about with my screen reader anyway, even though it supports them. Well,
> I do use live regions to play the playroom website, which uses them
> quite extensively for very useful things, but everywhere else, they just
> tend to get in the way. I'm glad Orca does support these things, just in
> case somehow they become useful, but for now, I build my websites clean
> and simple without all kinds of clutter, and I do all I can to be sure
> they just work no matter what browser someone happens to be using,
> unless of course they use Internet Explorer, which I am unable to test.
> ~Kyle
> http://kyle.tk/
> -- 
> "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?"
> Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"
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