Re: usability testing notes - RE: WSTF Agenda for 25 October 2004

Hello Shawn,
Upon going to the getting started page, the items under  item A are announced with a ? or a + prefix. ...
graphic ?[Alternative Browsing]
graphic +Quick Tips
  Did not experience the ? on the WAI Groups (D) link. All 9 items have a plus.
  So what does the ?image signify?
  2. I think the skip to content is yet to be fixedon all pages... it should take focus to the h1, right?
  3. There appear to be two h2 headings  called Site Navigation on all the A, B, C, D links. are the search and site map links  meant to be outside the first site nav h2? Perhaps the first h2 can bedone away with. 
  4. Drop the "photo of" prefix from alt for images. JAWS for instance announces that it is a graphic. (OK this is not navigation related) 
  Yes it is now much  clearer with the A, B, C numbering and the quicklinks combo and it announces current page.
  Sailesh Panchang
  Senior Accessibility Engineer 
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Shawn Lawton Henry 
  To: 'Sailesh Panchang' ; public-wai-eo-site@w3.org 
  Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 11:19 AM
  Subject: RE: usability testing notes - RE: WSTF Agenda for 25 October 2004



  Hi, Sailesh,

  Have you had a chance to look at the navigation since we changed it to
  <ol>s? We will be discussing this on the upcoming Monday WSTF
  teleconference and it would be great if you could join or send your
  comments beforehand.

  ~ Shawn


  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: Shawn Lawton Henry [mailto:shawn@w3.org] 
  > Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 4:39 PM
  > To: 'Sailesh Panchang'; 'public-wai-eo-site@w3.org'
  > Subject: RE: usability testing notes - RE: WSTF Agenda for 25 
  > October 2004
  > 
  > 
  > From: Sailesh Panchang [mailto:sailesh.panchang@deque.com] 
  > (http://www.w3.org/2004/09/wai-nav/8-gr.html)
  > Normally in other menus I have seen, the plus sign is a link 
  > and so is the text adjacent to it. 
  > Is selecting the plus link and the adjacent text link 
  > supposed to produce the same effect? But on the WAI page 
  > under discussion, the plus sign is part of the link. So I 
  > wonder what is the purpose of the plus sign?To me it just 
  > appears like a link and selecting it takes me to the next 
  > level and so forth.
  > 
  > Shawn replies:
  > In the current prototype, the plus sign and the text adjacent 
  > to it do the exact same thing; thus, they are one link. The 
  > plus sign is to indicate that there are "children" under that 
  > node. So, it is working "correctly". However, we should 
  > consider if it seems wrong because it is somewhat different 
  > from some other implementations.
  > 
  > From: Sailesh Panchang [mailto:sailesh.panchang@deque.com] 
  > Interestingly, WinEyes does not  announce the plus sign but 
  > just reads the link.
  > 
  > Shawn replies:
  > We should consider the impact of this.
  > 
  > Thanks for the comments!
  > 
  > ~ Shawn
  >