Hello folks. I just wanted to point out a little thing about how to make HTML show notes more accessible to blind folks like me.
When you're linking to something in your notes, like the previous episode in your series, please consider the method most screen-reader users use to navigate between links. All of the readers I have come across have a navigation key dedicated to stepping through varieties of landmarks in an HTML page. For example the 'l' key to jump from link to link or the 'h' key to jump between headers. So, when using the keypress method of jumping from one link to the next it is very poor practice to, for example, make only the word 'here' a link in the middle of a sentence like 'Find the notes for episode N here'. If there are multiple links on a page of that kind then repeated presses of 'l' will just make the screen-reader say 'here, here, here, here, here' as you go from link to link. So, we then have to look at the surrounding text to identify what the link is. Likewise, if your notes contain the actual text 'http:// ... etc ... ' after words which say what it is, we just get a Web address and it's not always obvious what it is. Better to make the whole of the 'find episode 1 of galvanic frogs leg spasm here' a hyperlink. Here endeth the lesson on the third Wednesday after muck spreading. Mike -- Michael A. Ray Analyst/Programmer Witley, Surrey, South-east UK Eyes-free Linux: http://eyesfreelinux.ninja/ Raspberry VI: http://www.raspberryvi.org/ _______________________________________________ Hpr mailing list [email protected] http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org
