Whether you use Fangs or a real screen reader it is difficult for a developer or tester to know if a website is really accessible unless they have an understanding of how screen reader users visualise a website and interact with it.
There is a huge difference between being able to hear the content and being able to understand it. Whilst it is possible to make some generalities (as we do in our demonstrations) every user testing project reveals difficulties we would not have forseen. It is far too big a topic to discuss at length here, but problems include having too much content on a page, use of visual metaphors, and the meaning of the content being conveyed by the spatial relationship between two or more pieces of content. In each case all the content can be heard but it may not be understood. Complex tables and nested lists may be unintelligible despite being marked up perfectly in terms of semantics and standards compliance. And dynamic content (e.g. DHTML and AJAX) is a world of pain. Steve Green Director Test Partners Ltd / First Accessibility www.testpartners.co.uk www.accessibility.co.uk Rahul Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Barney Carroll wrote: > Only I can never know if I have achieved it, because I can't test it; > nor can I find anybody else to test for me, or even pin-point known > problems. Dear Barney, For Firefox, this seems like an interesting utility. I haven't used it yet, but I think you might find it useful. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/402/ Regards, - Rahul. ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
