Re: Using ARIA to control screen readers

Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Jonathan Avila
> <jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com> wrote:
>> This would however require
>> the user to learn some keystrokes for this site.  In addition, some screen
>> reader like JAWS would not pass the single letter keystrokes through to the
>> web application.
> 
> I think these are strong arguments against trying to attach this
> functionality to the "D" key.
> 
> Typical screen readers provide a universal interface by which users
> can jump from list item to list item and from heading to heading,
> skipping intermediate content.
> 
> So in this case what's wrong with markup like:
> 
> <h1>Cars</h1>
> <ul>
>   <li>
>      <h2>Ford Focus</h2>
>      <p>description goes here</p>
>   </li>

It's a definition list marked up as an un-numbered list.

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Received on Friday, 12 November 2010 07:44:04 UTC