- From: E.J. Zufelt <everett@zufelt.ca>
- Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:49:40 -0400
- To: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Cc: public-html-a11y@w3.org
On 2011-08-23, at 6:31 PM, Janina Sajka wrote: > Silvia Pfeiffer writes: >> The problem of aria-describedby automatically starting to read out the >> description is not as a big a problem as you make it out to be. Every >> screen reader has a key that stops the screen reader from continuing >> to read what it is currently reading ... > > > And then what? Are we to abandon reading anything else on the page? If > we resume, where do we resume? Right in the middle of that > long-description that wasn't so interesting and caused us to stop speech > in the first instance? > > No, Silvia, it won't work that way. As a screen-reader user my first response was to agree with Silvia. I * never * use continuous reading on a web page, I rarely use continuous reading in any document. However, I do recognize that continuous reading is used by some screen-reader users. If I were to run into a long description that bored me I would likely (JAWS): 1. press the down arrow key a couple of times until I was past the description and then resume continuous reading, or 2. Press the read next paragraph key combination and then, presuming I was past the description, resume continuous reading. However, I would never be quite sure that I had actually finished w/ the long description, and that I wasn't skipping to far and missing important or potentially interesting information. Thanks, Everett
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