[bcab] Re: Links on web pages and screen readers

    It's theoretically possible to do this to some extent already. If the
site has been built using CSS, it is possible to create a specific style
sheet just for Braille devices, but here's the catch. None of the major
screen readers acknowledge that such style sheets exist. Neither do most
browsers come to mention it and that's where the problem lies. The screen
reader vendors say it should be the responsibility of the browser vendors
and vice versa. Meantime, here we all are...
 
Regards,
Léonie.

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From: bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Dave Taylor
Sent: 22 February 2008 09:09
To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bcab] Re: Links on web pages and screen readers


Exactly, and since braille and other alternative format production is moving
towards using XML single source files, it should get easier and easier to
render things however we want.
 
 

From: Tony Dart <mailto:tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 8:40 AM
To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Subject: [bcab] Re: Links on web pages and screen readers

Basically, we are back to  the same question for any sort of media - how to
alter the presentation of the same content to suit different needs. And the
answer is the same - richly structured content with a filter at the
presentation level. How long before the web moves to XML? (Don't laugh - it
will happen.) Then web-designers could do as they liked and our software
could pull out the bits we want. Hmmmm.
 
Tony
 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Clive Lever <mailto:clive.lever@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 1:34 AM
Subject: [bcab] Re: Links on web pages and screen readers

Hi Léonie,
 
I suppose the classic instance of this is the Deaf lobby who often cry out
for features which make information inaccessible to blind people, and
possibly vice versa.  How do you square:
"Fewer words, more pictures" 
with 
"Fewer pictures, more words".
 
The Deaf community even has different meanings for the word Deaf depending
on the case of the initial letter.  How do you do that with speech.
 
So you get:
 
Deaf people benefit from British Sign Language interpreters at meetings,
whilst deaf people may favour text to speech reporting. 
 
Can you run that past me again? I didn't hear it the first time.
 
Best,
Clive
 



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