That's because very few actually do "a pretty darn good job". Most don't give screen reader users a moment's thought, and it is fortunate that they coincidentally benefit from some things that good designers do such as semantic markup and standards-compliant coding.
Furthermore, I don't think that many designers understand how to design websites that are screen reader friendly even if they wanted to. How many designers have ever worked with a screen reader user and learned what the real issues are? Screen reader software could certainly be improved but most of the problems users face are not due to technical limitations. The problems mostly relate to understanding a linearised version of multi-dimensional content that lacks the visual styling and spatial relationships that make browsing easy for sighted users. Steve Green Director Test Partners Ltd / First Accessibility www.testpartners.co.uk www.accessibility.co.uk "Michael Yeaney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And yet again...on the topic of screen readers, nobody has once mentioned the possibility that perhaps we as web developers a pretty darn good job, and that maybe it is the screen reader manufacturers that need the 'kick in the balls'....why, I'm not sure - but it seems to be a trend. Mike ******************************************************************* 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] *******************************************************************
