1.7 Create Accessible Sites per Various AT Strategies Flashcards
What are the two vision disabilities?
Blindness
Low Vision
What two ways does a SR deliver web content to the blind user?
Speech
Braile
How does a screen reader organize the contents of the web page to help the blind user have quick access? How can developers help this occur?
It makes lists of common elements such as landmarks, headings, links, form controls, etc. that are presented to the users in tabbable format.
The underlying HTML or aria-roles helps in this.
What is one technique for providing instructions to user who only tab through sites?
Provide aria-describedby that pick up text missed in non tabbable elements
What is the main thing to consider with a blind person using a touch screen?
They cannot see the elements’ location on the screen.
How does a screen reader help a blind person using a touch screen?
The SR overrides
the visual method for interacting and replaces it with a gesture-based system.
Screen reader gestures for touch screens include what basic gestures?
Swipe right - go forward
Swipe left - go backward
Single Tap- announce active element
Double Tap - activate current button or link
The specific gestures vary from one brand of a screen reader to the next.
What is the most common SR used on desktops/laptops?
JAWS, followed by NVDA, then VO
Which browser is most often used by SR users on desktop/laptop?
Chrome,
then Microsoft Edge
then Firefox
then Safari
What is the most widely used mobile SR?
VoiceOver
then TalkBack
Most popular desktop/laptop SR/Browser combos?
JAWS/Chrome NVDA/Chrome JAWS/Edge NVDA/Firefox JAWS/Firefos VO/Safari
What percentage of SR users are on a Windows machine?
91%
What percent of SR users use mobile devices?
90%
What the market share split between AT users between Android and Apple devices?
9 to 3.25
Basically, two third more people use Apple mobile devices than Android ones
What is the SR users’ favorite way to find information?
Using Headings! by far
Which document type to SR users find to be most accessible?
WORD