Re: Using ARIA to control screen readers

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>
  <li>
    <h2>Ferrari</h2>
    <p>description goes here</p>
  </li>
... and so on ...
</ul>

which would allow users to use the interface they already know?

--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Received on Friday, 12 November 2010 07:10:31 UTC