Comments on: Using a screen reader http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=2192 fan of all things mobile, father of small girls, IBM code monkey, youth charity trustee... Mon, 13 May 2013 08:22:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Conversational Internet : A prototype « dale lane http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=2192&cpage=1#comment-128417 Conversational Internet : A prototype « dale lane Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:47:06 +0000 http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=2192#comment-128417 [...] Visually impaired people can interact with the web using screen readers. These read out every element on a page. [...]

]]> By: Alex Bowyer http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=2192&cpage=1#comment-125075 Alex Bowyer Sat, 11 Aug 2012 15:42:09 +0000 http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=2192#comment-125075 Fascinating! It’s pretty much impossible to use, and this is probably one of the better sites for accessibility.

I think this shows that you cannot have one site for all purposes.
In an ideal world, we will need to create separate sites for
1) normal browsers
2) tablet browsing
3) mobile (small screen) browsing
4) screenreader browsing.

I guess some of this can be done with CSS, and with WordPress plugins/themes etc. But I think above all it really shows the need for the semantic web. Once all data is stored semantically it’s much easier to generate different views.

]]> By: David Bates http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=2192&cpage=1#comment-124759 David Bates Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:32:13 +0000 http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=2192#comment-124759 I’ve done some screen reader stuff before with Flex. It was an utter nightmare! [shudder]

]]> By: Ian Edwardz http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=2192&cpage=1#comment-124603 Ian Edwardz Sun, 05 Aug 2012 08:48:02 +0000 http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=2192#comment-124603 He had me at cookie.

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