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Screen reader friendly for visually impaired


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Old Feb 9, 2011, 05:02 AM
mysupervee
 
14 posts · Feb 2011
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Screen reader friendly for visually impaired

The site I'm developing on Wordpress 3.0.5 using Atahualpa 3.6.1 (which is a brilliant theme) will have site visitors that are visually impaired who use a screen reader (it allows users to move about the screen/navigation without a mouse using the alt key). Is there any code or a plugin I can apply to make this work?
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Old Feb 9, 2011, 06:11 AM
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10,176 posts · Jul 2009
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Have you run your site through an accessibility tester or testing with something like the Firefox extension called Fangs?
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Old Feb 9, 2011, 06:38 AM
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no I haven't - I didn't know one could. The client has asked a user with a screen reader to check it and the issue is that using the alt key doesn't activate the navigation bar. I'll try the Fang extension.
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Old Feb 9, 2011, 06:43 AM
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Just tried to install Fangs and got this message: "Fangs 1.0.4 could not be installed because it is not compatible with Firefox 3.6.13."
Any other suggestions?
Thanks
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Old Feb 9, 2011, 08:29 PM
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10,176 posts · Jul 2009
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Sorry about Fangs... I didn't check how current it was. I just spent a bit of time checking into accessibility for WordPress but didn't find anything definitive. You will probably have to do a bit of research and testing unless someone sees this thread and has some suggestions. You could certainly buy an install Jaws but that would only tell you how it sees your site and not how to make it more accessible. Wish I could help more.
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Old Feb 10, 2011, 03:16 AM
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Yeah, you're right I need to know how to make my site accessible to these screen readers. I appreciate the time you've spent searching, thank you.
If anyone else has some suggestions, tips, links, I'd really like to hear them.

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