[ILUG] testers
[ILUG] testers
Liam McDermott
theirishmole at gmail.com
Thu Feb 22 14:41:44 GMT 2007
Is there any validation tools for these screen readers of which you speak?
On 2/22/07, Darragh <lists at digitaldarragh.com > wrote:
> Interesting,
>
> It seems that visually impaired users won't be able to make much sense from this at al.
>
> The home page shows code. This is basically what I hear when using a screen reader. For your information a screen reader is what visually impaired and / or blind people use to read a computers interface. It speaks the highlighted or relevant part of the screen using synthesized speech or sometimes using Braille.
>
> It's always worth ensuring your site is accessible to users of screen readers as believe it or not, they make up quite a lot of web browsers out there. And, when something isn't accessible, there's nothing we enjoy more than complaining about it... J.
>
> As an example, here is what I hear when arrowing up and down your site. Each new line signifies a down key press.
>
> Venials
>
> table with 14 columns and 18 rows
>
> images/help
> Pages:
> #070281
> Flash movie start
>
> table with 14 columns and 18 rows nesting level 1
>
> http://www.venials.com/help.html
> Pages:
> #070281
> Inactive Control
> Played (59)
> Thu 22nd Feb 2007
> Link to this
> PARDON(39)
> PUNISH(51)
> Embeded:
> <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0"
> id="xspf_player" align="middle" height="17" width="17">
>
> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain">
>
> <param name="movie" value="http://www.venials.com/musicplayer.swf?song_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.venials.com%2Fmp3.html%26sin%3D118" >
>
> <param name="quality" value="high">
>
> <param name="bgcolor" value="#e6e6e6">
>
> <embed src="http://www.venials.com/musicplayer.swf?song_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.venials.com%2Fmp3.html%26sin%3D118" quality="high" bgcolor="#e6e6e6" name="xspf_player"
> allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" align="middle" height="17"
> width="17">
>
> </object>
>
> URL:
> http://www.venials.com/index.html&offset=0
> #260512
> Inactive Control
> Played (43)
> Thu 22nd Feb 2007
> Link to this
> PARDON(5)
> PUNISH(21)
> Embeded:
> <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0"
> id="xspf_player" align="middle" height="17" width="17">
>
> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain">
>
> <param name="movie" value="http://www.venials.com/musicplayer.swf?song_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.venials.com%2Fmp3.html%26sin%3D117" >
>
> <param name="quality" value="high">
>
> <param name="bgcolor" value="#e6e6e6">
>
> <embed src="http://www.venials.com/musicplayer.swf?song_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.venials.com%2Fmp3.html%26sin%3D117" quality="high" bgcolor="#e6e6e6" name="xspf_player"
> allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" align="middle" height="17"
> width="17">
>
> </object>
>
> URL:
> http://www.venials.com/index.html&offset=0
> #456789
> Censored
> Thu 22nd Feb 2007
> Pages:
> table end nesting level 1
>
> Flash movie end
> Played (59)
> Thu 22nd Feb 2007
> Link to this
> PARDON(39)
> PUNISH(51)
> #260512
> Flash movie start
>
> table with 14 columns and 18 rows nesting level 1
>
> http://www.venials.com/help.html
> Pages:
> #070281
> Inactive Control
> Played (59)
> Thu 22nd Feb 2007
> Link to this
> PARDON(39)
> PUNISH(51)
> Embeded:
> <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0"
> id="xspf_player" align="middle" height="17" width="17">
>
> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain">
>
> <param name="movie" value="http://www.venials.com/musicplayer.swf?song_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.venials.com%2Fmp3.html%26sin%3D118" >
>
> <param name="quality" value="high">
>
> <param name="bgcolor" value="#e6e6e6">
>
> <embed src="http://www.venials.com/musicplayer.swf?song_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.venials.com%2Fmp3.html%26sin%3D118" quality="high" bgcolor="#e6e6e6" name="xspf_player"
> allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" align="middle" height="17"
> width="17">
>
> </object>
>
> URL:
> http://www.venials.com/index.html&offset=0
> #260512
> Inactive Control
> Played (43)
> Thu 22nd Feb 2007
> Link to this
> PARDON(5)
> PUNISH(21)
> Embeded:
> <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0"
> id="xspf_player" align="middle" height="17" width="17">
>
> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain">
>
> <param name="movie" value="http://www.venials.com/musicplayer.swf?song_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.venials.com%2Fmp3.html%26sin%3D117" >
>
> <param name="quality" value="high">
>
> <param name="bgcolor" value="#e6e6e6">
>
> <embed src="http://www.venials.com/musicplayer.swf?song_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.venials.com%2Fmp3.html%26sin%3D117" quality="high" bgcolor="#e6e6e6" name="xspf_player"
> allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" align="middle" height="17"
> width="17">
>
> </object>
>
> URL:
> http://www.venials.com/index.html&offset=0
> #456789
> Censored
> Thu 22nd Feb 2007
> Pages:
> table end nesting level 1
>
> Flash movie end
> Played (43)
> Thu 22nd Feb 2007
> Link to this
> PARDON(5)
> PUNISH(21)
> #456789
> Censored
> Thu 22nd Feb 2007
> Pages:
> images/venials_layout_26
> table end
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> > From: Kevin Brennan <kevin.brennan at redsquared.com >
> > Sent: 22 February 2007 13:32
> > To: ILUG <ilug at linux.ie >
> > Subject: [ILUG] testers
> >
> > Hi Folks,
> > We're in beta mode with a new site, wondering if there was anyone
> > there risky enough to test. You can admit to using windows, this would
> > probably be unpardonable.
> > Any feedback welcome.
> > http://www.venials.com
> >
> > /Kevin
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