[nvda] Re: How to use Google Reader with NVDA

Hello,
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Brian Gaff Lineone downstairs
<bgaff@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm still not convinced that areas make much sense. To me keeping things on
> different pages makes more logical sense. Otherwise you might as well make
> every web site on just one big page.

You have a valid point as far as static documents are concerned. This
is what Web 1.0 was all about, publishing static documents which would
link to each other, forming a globally accessible web. In this mental
model it makes perfect sense to split documents into pages just as it
makes sense to split books into chapters.
Web 2.0 is a paradigm shift in that it is no longer strictly about
static documents but about applications. Think about a word processor.
Would it make sense to split it into an editing application, a
spellchecking application, a printing application and so on? My answer
is, yes it would, to a certain extent, but it shouldn't feel like
loading another application. For example, the window shouldn't be
completely redrawn just because the user loaded another document or
clicked on a menu. Web 2.0 brings the mental model of applications to
the web at which point the concept of pages gets a bit blurry. To
minimize time-consuming network communication, web application
developers try to reload as little of the "page" as possible.
The visual transition from documents to applications is more or less
complete, so to a sighted user, Google Docs really looks like a
perfectly normal word processor. Without Aria, however, blind users
would have to explore this application through technology designed to
explore static documents, and would find it rather strange to say the
least.
Best regards,
Felix Grützmacher
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