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Over the past few years, and especially following Mark Newhouse’s article, Taming Lists, on A List Apart, usage of the styled lists within markup seems to have increased dramatically - particularly within the creation of site navigation menus. But do all styled lists offer the same level of accessibility?
It looks like AOL at up to their old tricks again.
I’ve never used AOL (I’m not that stupid) but I understand that their default email client includes a “This Is Spam” button which their users are encouraged to hit every time they receive what appears to be junk email. The application then sends out an auto-generated spam report to AOL.
If you are already aware of accessibility issues, it is highly likely that you may also be sensitive to the problems that long pages can create for keyboard navigators. In an effort to increase accessibility, you may well be providing in-page links on long, or complex, pages that are intended to allow keyboard navigators to jump quickly from one section of the page to another without having to press the TAB key repeatedly.
If this sounds like you, then you need to visit Jim Thatcher’s site now!
Switching to Firefox from another open application, using Dragon, can be extremely difficult as, normally, the Firefox window defaults to the title of the web page currently loaded.
Not only does this mean that you have to do try and dictate something like:
switch to web-page-with-incredibly-long-name
but, 9 times out of 10, you can’t even see the full name when Firefox has been minimised to the taskbar. So you end up either making wild guesses or trying to navigate labouriously using keyboard shortcuts.