Re: async and browser - screen reader communications.

Dear Karen:

Thank you for alerting us of James' article. I expect it's important for
quite a few of us.

Unfortunately the link you forward is (at least currently) 404. Can you
say where you're forwarding from? I can't tell from your message.

best,
Janina

Karen Lewellen writes:
> Hi all,
> I am sharing the below article for a couple of reasons.  First because the
> writer  explains  quite clearly what contributes to the  often poor async
> patterns between modern browsers and screen readers.
> Second, I am wondering if there might be a tiny way to begin change via
> standards?
> Here is the article and a bit on the source.
> 
> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:20:21 -0400
> Subject: An answer to the busy messages from screen readers
> 
> James Tey  who used to be an NVDA developer and is now a Firefox developer describes why communications between browsers and screen readers is synchronous and causes poor performance.
> 
> https://www.jantrid.net/2025/03/20/async-accessibility-apis/https://www.jantrid.net/2025/03/20/async-accessibility-apis/
> 
> Thoughts?
> Karen
> 

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Janina Sajka (she/her/hers)
Accessibility Consultant https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa

Linux Foundation Fellow
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Received on Sunday, 23 March 2025 09:53:46 UTC