- From: Ian Pouncey <w3c@ipouncey.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:18:46 +0100
- To: sylvie.duchateau@snv.jussieu.fr
- Cc: Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>, "EOWG (E-mail)" <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org>
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Sylvie Duchateau <sylvie.duchateau@snv.jussieu.fr> wrote: > In the next bullet, I wonder if users with cognitive disabilities only use > screen readers? I think there are possibilities to have software reading > text that is selected with the mouse or copied and pasted in the clipboard. > So I suggest for this bullet: > - Users who have a cognitive impairment that makes it difficult > or impossible to read, and have text read by speech synthesis when they > select it with the mouse or copy it to the clipboard. This is a valid technique used by users, but alt attribute text is not copied to the clipboard when an image is selected in all browsers - do we need to make a note of that if this change is accepted? I think the reference to users with cognitive impairments potentially using a traditional screen reader needs to stay in as well. Ian.
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