Nick Fitzsimons wrote:
I'm assuming here that a screen reader imparts the additional information implied by the distinction between ol and ul, such as specifying "Three" rather than "Bullet". I haven't checked, but I believe that is the case from previous tests.
Ah, gotcha...from your original message, it wasn't clear that you meant "so it should be OL rather than UL".
From that perspective, I was thinking in terms of the situation where a blind user, having heard the description of something they like, might find it easier to phone the company to place an order. If the screen reader said something like "List item: Three: blue sweater" instead of "List item: Bullet: blue sweater", then rather than the user having to count and remember that the blue one was the third item description they heard on that page, they would be able to tell the person taking the order that the thing they want is "the third one on the sweaters page". Sometimes people's interaction with web sites can lead to interaction with the rest of reality :-)
Would they not be more likely to say that the thing that they want is "the blue sweater" (plus, if necessary, some other distinguishing information they read in the description, such as price), rather than resorting to counting?
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