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I mostly agree with you. But I think the screen reader should be smart enough to automatically read whatever appears on the page after you activate a link. So t
by mwcampbell 11y ago
I mostly agree with you. But I think the screen reader should be smart enough to automatically read whatever appears on the page after you activate a link. So the problem with the pre-order popup could be solved in the screen reader.
- ndarilek 11y agoSure, but you can't necessarily know that automatically reading any new piece of text is any better than not reading new text at all, and even if one screen reader can handle this particular case just fine, it seems like anyone targeting a whole community should just use ARIA and best practices for rendering modal content accessibly.
- mwcampbell 11y agoI agree that a website for a product like this should have exemplary accessibility. The heuristic I'd use in a screen reader is as follows: if a user activates a link and a new element becomes visible but nothing else happens within half a second or so, read the contents of that element as if it were a newly loaded page. FWIW for anyone else reading this thread, ndarilek and I have each developed a screen reader (on Android and Windows, respectively).