Twitter friends! I'm collecting all the evil tricks that people (inadvertently?) do to make things less #accessible. What are the top 3 things #UX or #dev folks do that feel like they're basically locking the door? Give me your worst! #a11y #inclusion
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It's about the overall ease of use in a normal (read: not testing) context. Beyond the flood of words (overly verbose stuff can be really, really tedious to listen to using a screen reader), it could actually cause some real confusion (what IS this run-on thing?).
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If a link wraps all the content, the link text is everything inside of it: the alt text, the heading, the summary, metadata, etc. It's a horrible experience for screen reader users to hear all of that. The link in the image has 40 words in.pic.twitter.com/fy78PnnI58
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Imagine using an AT list of links and having the first element taking half a minute to read. Typically users would be tempted to skip it but it may end up being the link you need.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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