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deborah ([personal profile] deborah) wrote in [site community profile] dw_suggestions 2010-11-02 05:00 pm (UTC)

short answer: no, not reliably.

Longer answer: there are weird little hacks with flash, but they are so unreliable as to not be worth using.

Longest answer: it's possible to design the page so that it looks right both in visual browsers and with screenreaders, and that has generally been the dreamwidth goal from day one, I think. In this case I would want to sit down with the screenreader user and work out exactly the parts that are unclear.

[personal profile] theplotbunny, would you be willing at some point to sit down with me (Skype, chat, rapid exchange of e-mails -- whatever would end up working out best), so that we could figure out which parts are unclear and clarify them? Disclaimers: I'm on coding hiatus until January, and someone else might take on this bug before then. But "error messages which are unclear to screenreader" definitely seems like a bug, not a feature request.

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