- From: Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net>
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:45:54 +1000
- To: wai-xtech@w3.org
Schnabel, Stefan <stefan.schnabel@sap.com> wrote: > I see these "interpretations" quite often. What lacks to me is a transparent > and common consensus how things *should* be because the majority of users > want this exactly so. I think you cannot get these answers easily, so this > encourages the AT developers to code their own interpretation. Yes, and if I am not mistaken, some screen readers don't have modes in the relevant sense at all. Thus, any solution would be pertinent only to specific implementations. > > What I heard is that many users are used to switch between screen reader > modes permanently, so these defaults may or not may harm expected behaviours > - I cannot judge on that. If the user can change the mode then it's inconvenient but not altogether inaccessible. I haven't used JAWS so I don't know exactly how this works, but clearly it's less harmful if the user can exert control.
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