RE: Sight loss, orientation and mobility and metaphors for web navigation

None that are obviously fruitful.

 

BTW, the name “landmark” in ARIA is not the most appropriate. The full name is landmark region; a landmark region is not a point on a page but a major section of the page. That is, a landmark region is actually a container, not a point of interest.

 

And, technically, in ARIA 1.1, they became landmark sections, but the term “landmark region” was so ingrained in the ARIA vernacular by that time that there wasn’t even any discussion of trying to change it.

 

Matt King

 

From: Mark Weiler <mweiler@alumni.sfu.ca> 
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 6:41 PM
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject: Sight loss, orientation and mobility and metaphors for web navigation

 

I have a question for folks with sight loss or who work with people with sight loss regularly.  To what extent do you think orientation and mobility techniques for navigating physical space provides fruitful metaphors for thinking about interacting with web content?  Aria landmarks echos of landmarks in O & M.  On the other hand, a blind friend says when he enters a physical space, he listens for the sound of a space. For example, he'll listen for sounds reflecting off of surfaces. This doesn't seem to have a parallel in web content orientation, as far as I know.